Authors: Roberto Calasso
Tags: #Literary Collections, #Essays, #Social Science, #Anthropology, #Cultural
Janaka
jang
J
ā
ratk
ā
rava
Ᾱ
rtabh
ā
ga
Jerome, Saint
Jerusalem
Jesus
Jews
John, Gospel of
joy (
sukha
);
see also sukha
K. (in Kafkas’s
The Trial
and
The Castle
)
ka
(“happiness”)
Ka (“Who?,” name of Praj
ā
pati);
see also
Praj
ā
pati
Kadr
ū
Kafka, Franz
Kahola (or Kaho
ḍ
a) Kau
ṣī
takeya
k
ā
ma
(“desire”);
see also
desire
K
ā
ma
Ka
ṅ
kati Br
ā
hma
ṇ
a
Kant, Immanuel
kar
ī
ra
(
Capparis aphylla
)
karman
(“action”);
see also
action; ritual
Ka
ṭ
ha
Ā
ra
ṇ
yaka
Kath
ā
sarits
ā
gara
(Somadeva)
Ka
ṭ
ha Upani
ṣ
ad
K
ā
ty
ā
yana
Ś
rauta S
ū
tra
K
ā
ty
ā
yan
ī
kavi
(“poet”);
see also
poetry; poets
Keith, Arthur Berriedale
kén
ō
sis
(“self-emptying”);
see also
self-emptying
Kerala
kha
(“space”)
Kierkegaard, Søren
killing
killing of animals
kindling
Kircher, Athanasius
knowledge (
veda
)
kola
(“yoke”)
Kramrisch, Stella
K
ṛśā
nu
K
ṛṣṇ
a
k
ṣ
atriya
(“warrior”);
see also
warrior
Kumbhayoni
Kuru
ku
ś
a
(
Poa cynosuroides
)
Lampetia
language;
see also
speech; word
Last Supper
Latins
Lautréamont
law;
see also dharma
Laws
(Plato)
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
Lévi, Sylvain
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Leviticus
Lévy-Bruhl, Lucien
libation;
see also agnihotra
;
graha
Liber
Livy
Locke, John
lógos
loka
(“world”)
Lommel, Herman
lotus
Lüders, Heinrich
Luther, Martin
macrocosm, microcosm
Mah
ā
bh
ā
rata
mah
ā
sattra
(“great sacrificial session”)
mah
ā
vrata
(“great vow”)
Maitr
ā
ya
ṇī
Sa
ṃ
hit
ā
Maitrey
ī
Malamoud, Charles
Mallarmé, Stéphane
man-
(“to think”);
see also
mind
manas
(mind);
see also
mind
m
ā
nas
āḥ
putr
āḥ
(“mind-born children”)
manifest (
sat
);
see also
unmanifest
Mann, Thomas
mantra
(metrical part of the Vedas, formula)
Manu
Maoris
m
ā
rga
(“way”)
Marpa
M
ā
rt
āṇḍ
a
Maruts
Marx, Karl
mash
ḥ
it
(“destroyer”)
Mass
M
ā
tari
ś
van
M
ā
thava of Videha, King
matter
Mauss, Marcel
m
ā
y
ā
(“spell,” “enchantment,” “magic”)
meaning
Mecca
medha
(“essence,” “juice,” “sap”)
meditation (
dhy
ā
na
)
Meluhha
memory
Mesopotamia
metaphor
metaphysics
meters;
see also anu
ṣṭ
ubh
;
b
ṛ
hat
ī
;
g
ā
yatr
ī
;
tri
ṣṭ
ubh
;
vir
ā
j
Meuli, Karl
Mexico
Milarepa
milk;
see also agnihotra
Milky Way
Minard, Armand
mind (
citta
,
manas
);
see also citta
;
manas
Mind (Manas)
Mitra (“Friend”)
mlecchas
(“barbarians”)
modes of thinking
Mohenjo-daro
money
moon
morality, secular
Moses
Mount M
ū
javant
m
ṛ
ga
;
see also
antelope
m
ṛ
gavy
ā
dha
(“he who shoots the antelope”)
m
ṛ
tyu
(“death”);
see also
death
M
ṛ
tyu (Death)
Müller, F. Max
muñja
(
Saccharum munja
)
Mus, Paul
Musil, Robert
Mysteries
myth
nakedness
N
ā
rada
nature
Nazi Germany
Nefertiti
Nerval, Gérard de
ne
ṣṭṛ
(officiant who escorts the sacrificer’s wife)
Newtonian science
New Zealand
nexus;
see also bandhu
; connections; correspondences; equivalences;
sampad
;
upani
ṣ
ad
Nietzsche, Friedrich
night;
see also
day
Nir
ṛ
ti (“Dissolution”)
nirukta
(“form that is expressed”)
Nirukta
nirv
āṇ
a
(“extinction”)
Nisan
Noah
nonbeing, being
nonviolence
noûs
(“intellect”)
Numa Pompilius
Numbers
Nymphs (Apsaras);
see also
Apsaras
oblation
ocean
Odysseus
Odyssey
(Homer)
offering
officiants
‘olah
(offering “that goes up,” holocaust)
Oldenberg, Hermann
Olivelle, Patrick
Olympians
Olympic games
omnipotence
omniscience
order
orgasm
Orion
Orth, Stefan
Oupnek’hat
(Anquetil-Duperron)
ousía
(“substance”);
see also sat
Ovid
padá
(“foot,” “track,” “word”)
pain (
du
ḥ
kha
)
pal
āś
a
(
Butea frondosa
)
Palestine
Pañc
ā
las
paradox
Parmenides
Passover
past
pa
ś
u
(“domestic animal that can be sacrificed”)
Paul of Tarsus, Saint
pavitra
(“filter”)
peace
Pentateuch
Persephone
Persia, Persians
person (
puru
ṣ
a
);
see
Puru
ṣ
a
Peter, Saint
Phaethusa
physiology
ph
ý
sis
pilgrimage
pippal
(
Ficus religiosa
)
pit
ṛ
y
āṇ
a
(“way of the ancestors”)