Authors: Roberto Calasso
Tags: #Literary Collections, #Essays, #Social Science, #Anthropology, #Cultural
Soma, King
soma
sacrifice
Sophists
Sophocles
sovereignty
space (
ā
k
āś
a
,
kha
,
antarik
ṣ
a
);
see also
ā
k
āś
a
;
kha
speech (
v
ā
c
);
see also
V
ā
c;
v
ā
c
Spinoza, Baruch
splendor;
see also
Ś
r
ī
spoons (
juh
ū
,
sruva
,
upabh
ṛ
t
)
ś
raddh
ā
(“trust,” “faith”)
Ś
r
ī
Staal, Frits
Strehlow, Carl Friedrich
strength
Strindberg, August
study
substance, matter
substitution
substitutive thinking;
see also
digital mode of thought
Sud
ā
s
suicide;
see also
Islamist suicide-killers
Su-ilisu
sukha
(“happiness”);
see also
happiness; joy
Sumerians
Sun (S
ū
rya)
sun
Supar
ṇī
surplus;
see also bhuman
; residue;
ś
esa
S
ū
tra (“thread,” “rule”)
sva
(“of his own,” “self”);
see also
ā
tman
; Self; self-referentiality
sv
ā
dhy
ā
ya
(“inner recitation”);
see also
reader
sv
ā
h
ā
(ritual exclamation)
svayambh
ū
(“self-existing”)
Ś
vetaketu
Ā
ru
ṇ
eya or Audd
ā
laki
svid
(particle that introduces a question)
Svi
ṣṭ
ak
ṛ
t (“he who offers well the sacrifice”)
Swaminathan, C. R.
Swiss Guards
symbol
Taittir
ī
ya Br
ā
hma
ṇ
a
Taittir
ī
ya Sa
ṃ
hit
ā
Taittir
ī
ya Upani
ṣ
ad
tamas
(“darkness”);
see also sattva
tan-
(“to tend,” “to extend”)
Tantrism
t
ā
n
ū
naptra
(ceremony connected to Tan
ū
nap
ā
t, a form of Agni “son of himself”)
tapas
(“ardor”)
T
ā
r
ā
tat tvam asi
(“this you are”)
tejas
(“incandescent energy”)
témenos
(land marked out and excluded from common use)
temple
Ten Kings
Thales
Theogony
(Hesiod)
thought;
see also
Vedic thought
Thucydides
thunderbolt (
vajra
)
th
ý
ein
(“to sacrifice”)
Tiki,
tiki
Timaeus
(Plato)
time
Tiresias
tri
ṣṭ
ubh
(verse form consisting of four lines of eleven syllables);
see also
meters
truth (
ṛ
ta
,
satya
);
see also
ṛ
ta
; untruth
Tva
ṣṭṛ
(“Craftsman”)
ty
ā
ga
(“yielding,” “detachment”)
ucchi
ṣṭ
a
(“residue”);
see also
residue;
Ś
e
ṣ
a;
ś
e
ṣ
a
Udd
ā
laka
Ᾱ
ru
ṇ
i
udg
ā
t
ṛ
(officiant “chanter” of the hymns of the
S
ā
maveda
);
see also
chant, chanter
udumbara
(
Ficus glomerata
)
universal society
unmanifest (
asat
);
see also
manifest
untruth;
see also
truth
Upakosala K
ā
mal
ā
yana
upani
ṣ
ad
(“secret connection”);
see also bandhu
; connections; correspondences; equivalences; nexus;
sampad
Upani
ṣ
ads;
see also B
ṛ
had
ā
ra
ṇ
yaka Upani
ṣ
ad
;
Ch
ā
ndogya Upani
ṣ
ad
;
Ka
ṭ
ha Upani
ṣ
ad
;
Taittir
ī
ya Upani
ṣ
ad
upasad
(“siege,” triple offering of ghee to Agni, Soma, and Vi
ṣṇ
u)
Urabunna
Urva
śī
;
see also
Nymphs
U
śā
n
ā
(plant from which the
soma
is prepared)
U
ṣ
as;
see also
Dawn
U
ṣ
asta C
ā
kr
ā
ya
ṇ
a
Utnapi
š
tim
Uttara N
ā
r
ā
ya
ṇ
a (the second part of the
puru
ṣ
as
ū
kta
)
V
ā
c (“Speech”)
v
ā
c
(“speech,” “voice”);
see also
speech
vagina
vajra
(“thunderbolt”);
see also
thunderbolt
Valeri, Valerio
V
ā
lm
ī
ki
value;
see also
exchange; money
V
ā
madeva
v
ā
naprastha
(“withdrawn into the forest”)
vara
(“boon”);
see also
boons and curses
Varanasi
V
ā
r
ṣṇ
ya
Varu
ṇ
a
(Lüders)
Varu
ṇ
a
varu
ṇ
apragh
ā
sa
(rite of atonement connected to Varu
ṇ
a)
va
ṣ
a
ṭ
(ritual exclamation)
Vasi
ṣṭ
ha
Vasi
ṣṭ
ha Caikit
ā
neya
V
ā
stavya (“connected to the site and to the residue”);
see also
Rudra;
v
ā
stu
v
ā
stu
(“site,” “residue”);
see also
residue;
ś
e
ṣ
a
;
ucchi
ṣṭ
a
Vasu
Vatican Council, Second
V
ā
yu (“Wind”)
veda
(“knowledge”);
see also
knowledge
Veda
Ved
ā
nta;
see also
Ś
a
ṅ
kara
vedi
(altar);
see also
altar
Vedic civilization
Vedic thought;
see also
thought
vegetarianism
vijñ
ā
na
(“discernment”)
victim
Videha
village
Vinat
ā
violence, nonviolence
vípra
(“quivering,” poetic inspiration);
see also
poetry
vir
ā
j
(vedic verse form consisting of four lines of ten syllables);
see also
meters
Vir
ā
j
visible;
see also
invisible
Vi
ṣṇ
u
vis
ṛṣṭ
i
(“further creation”);
see also
creation
vi
ṣ
uvat
(central day of a yearlong sacrifice)