terrestrial deity, 195.

AITAREYA BRAHMANA, on heaven and earth, 175.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT, 37;
changes the name of a river, 191.

ALL-SACRIFICE, the, 85.

ALPHABET, the, whence derived, 86;
Ionian and Phoenician, 222;
two used in Asoka's inscription, 225.

AMITABHA worship, 106.

ANAXAGORAS, his doctrine, 177.

ANCESTORS, spirits of, 238;
worship of, 239.

ANIMISM, 130.

AURITA, 83.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL survey of India, 26.

ARRIAN, on the Hindus, 73;
rivers known to, 191.

ARYANS, the, our intellectual relatives, 33;
seven branches of, 41;
found in Sanskrit literature, 116;
religion of, 161.

ASMI, I am, 43.

ASOKA, king, 96;
adopts Buddhism, 106;
author of the first inscriptions, 225;
language of the same, 234.

ASTRONOMY, ancient, in India, 114;
in the Veda, 150;
in China, 151.

ATMAN, the Self, 265.

AVATARAS of Vishnu, three, 153.

B.

BABYLONIAN division of time, 36;
influences on Vedic poems, 145;
on Vedic astronomy, 147;
zodiac, 158.

BARZOI, 114.

BASTIAN, on the Polynesian myths, 169.

BENGAL, the people of, 55;
villages of, 65;
schools in, 80.

BENGALI, 161.

BHAGAVADGITA, 272.

BHAGAVAT, supreme lord, 272.

BIMETALLIC currency, 37.

BHISHMA, death of, 83.

BIBLE, the, Sanskrit words in, 28;
and the Jewish race, 140.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL survey of India, 102.

BOOKS read by ancient nations compared with modern, 137.

BOPP, his comparative grammar, 46.

BRAHMA sacrifice, 249.

BRAHMA Samaj, of india, 163.

BRAHMANA, 162.

BRAHMANAS, on truth, 84;
as a class, 256.

BUDDHA and the popular dialects, 96.

BUDDHISM, chief source of our fables, 27;
striking coincidences with Christianity, 108;
its rise, 234.

BURNOUF, 115.

C.

CABUL river, 192.

CAESAR, on the Druids and their memorizing, 233.

CANAAN, 140.

CARLYLE, his opinion of historical works, 16.

CASTE, origin of, 117;
in the laws of Manu, 117;
in the Rig-Veda, 117.

CAT, the domestic, its original home, 42.

CHINA, origin of the name, 151;
chronicles of, 104;
lunar stations of, 150;
aspects of religion, 264.

CHRISTIAN religion, the, and the Jewish race, 35.

CIVIL service examinations, Indian, 20.

CLIMATIC influences on morals and social life, 120.

COINS of India, 26.

COLEBROOKE'S religious ceremonies, 247.

COMMERCIAL honor in India, 82.

COMMERCE between India and Syria in Solomon's time, 28.

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