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plan (
sa

kalpa
)

Plato 357

Pleiades

Plotinus

Plutarch

poet

poetry

Polynesia

Porphyry

positivism

potestas
;
see also k

atriya

power

Powys, John Cowper

Praj
ā
pati;
see also
Brahm
ā
; Ka

pr
āṇ
a
(“breath,” “life”);
see also
breath;
ṛṣ
is
; vital breaths

pr
āṇā
gnihotra
(“libation in the fire of breath”)

pr
āś
itra
(“first portion”)

prati
ṣṭ
h
ā
(“foundation”)

prav

tti
(“progression,” “activity”)

prayer

predators, prey;
see also
food and eating; devour, devourer

prehistory

priest

primates

primitive

Prometheus

prose

Proust, Marcel

P

thiv
ī
(“Vast,” the earth)

punarm

tyu
(“death recurring”)

Pune

Pur
āṇ
as (“Antiquities”)

p
ū
r

a
(“full,” “fullness”)

Puru

a (“Person”)

puru

amedha
(“human sacrifice”)

p
ū
rve dev
āḥ
(“earlier gods”)

P
ūṣ
an

Pythagoras

quality

quantity

quantum mechanics

quincunx

Rak

as (wicked demons)

R
ā
m
ā
ya

a

Ramses II

rapture

rasa
(“taste”)

Rasmussen, Knud

ratio

Rau, Wilhelm


c
(“praise”);
see also
formula;
mantra
;

gveda

reader

reality

reason

recursive procedure

reflection (
ch
ā
y
ā
);
see also
self-referentiality

Reformation

reincarnation;
see also
death, recurring

release (
mok

a
;
mukti
)

religion;
see also
Christianity, Christians

Renou, Louis

renouncer (
sa

ny
ā
sin
)

renunciation (
sa

ny
ā
sa
)

Republic
(Plato)

residue (
ucchi
ṣṭ
a
);
see also
Ś
e

a;
ś
e

a
;
ucchi
ṣṭ
a


gveda

ri

-
(“to wear out”)

ritual, liturgy, ceremony;
see also
gestures; sacrifice

ritual fee (
dak

i
ṇā
)

rival, malicious (
dvi

an bhr
ā
t

vya

)

ṛṇ
a
(“debt”)

Roman Catholic Church

Rome

Roth, Joseph

ṛṣ
is
(“seers”)


ta
(“order,” “truth”)

Rudra;
see also
K
ṛśā
nu;
Ś
iva

Sabbath

sacrifice;
see also agnihotra
;
a
ś
vamedha
;
sattra
;
soma
sacrifice

sacrificer (
yajam
ā
na
)

sacrificial post (
y
ū
pa
)

S
ā
dhyas

Śā
kalya, Vidagdha

sale

salilá
(“wave,” “primordial ocean”)

salvation through sacrifice

s
ā
man
(“melody,” the
mantras
of the
S
ā
maveda
)

S
ā
ma
ś
ravas

S
ā
maveda
;
see also
hymns

sambh
ā
r
āḥ
(“utensils,” “accessories” for the liturgy)

sambh

-
(“to collect,” “to prepare”)

sa

hit
ā
(“collection”)

ś
amit

(“appeaser,” slaughterer);
see also
killing

sa

kalpa
(“intention,” “plan”)

sa

ny
ā
sin
(“renouncer”)

sampad
(“that which happens together,” “correspondence,” “equivalence”);
see also
bandhu
; correspondences

sa

sk
ā
ra
(“sacramental ceremony”)

samudrá
(“sea,” “ocean”)

Sanatkum
ā
ra

Śāṇḍ
ilya

Ś
a

kara

Sanskrit

Sappho

Saptar

is (“Seven Seers”)

Saptasindhu (“Land of the Seven Rivers”)

Śā
radvat
ī

Sara

y
ū

Sarasvat
ī
River

sat
(“that which is,” “being,” “manifest”);
see also
being, nonbeing; manifest

Ś
atapatha Br
ā
hma

a

Sat
ī

sattra
(sacrificial “session”)

sattva
(“luminous quality”)

Saturn

satya
(“truth”);
see also
truth

Satyak
ā
ma J
ā
b
ā
la

S
ā
tyayajña

Satyrs

sautr
ā
ma
ṇī
(rite dedicated to Indra, the “good protector”)

Savit

S
ā
ya

a

Scarpetta, Eduardo

Schaller, George Beals

Schayer, Stanis
ł
aw

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Schreber, Daniel Paul

Schroeder, Leopold von

science

secrecy

secularization

secular morality

secular society

Self (
ā
tman
);
see also
ā
tman

self-emptying (
kén
ō
sis
);
see also kén
ō
sis

self-existing (
svayambh
ū
)

self-mortification

self-referentiality;
see also
ā
tman
; reflection; Self

self-reflection

self-sacrifice

semen

Semiramis

Senart, Émile

serpent

Ś
e

a

ś
e

a
(“residue”);
see also
residue; surplus;
ucchi
ṣṭ
a

Seven Seers (Saptar

is);
see also r

is

sex, sexual pleasure;
see also
coitus

Siberia, Siberians

Silburn, Lilian

silence (
t
ūṣṇī
m
)

Simon, Erika

simulacrum

Sirius

Ś
iva;
see also
Rudra

skin;
see also
clothing; nakedness

sky

sleep

society

Socrates

soma
(“juice”)

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