writing, 225.

CONFUCIUS, a hard student, 230.

CONQUERORS of India, 30.

COULANGES, Professor, his opinion on religious beliefs, 245.

CUNNINGHAM'S Ancient Geography of India, 192.

CYLINDERS of Babylon, 139.

D.

DACOITS, 79.

DARWIN, 141.

DAWN, the, 173.

DAYANANDA'S introduction to the Rig-Veda, 104.

DELUGE, the, 153;
in Hindu literature, 154;
not borrowed from the Old Testament, 157;
its natural origin, 159.

DEPARTED spirits, 237;
honors paid to, 240;
ceremonies to, 246.

DEVA, 159;
the meaning of, 236.

DEVAPATNIS, wives of the gods, 164.

DEVAPI'S prayer for rain, 204.

DEVELOPMENT of human character in India and Europe, 118.

DIALECTS in Asoka's time, 106.

DIPHTHERA, 222.

DIVI Manes, 240.

DONKEY, in the lion's skin, 27;
in the tiger's skin, 28.

DRUIDS, their memory, 233.

DYAUS and Zeus, 213.

E.

EABANI, 158.

EAST, the, our original home, 49.

ECLIPTIC, Indian, 153.

EDUCATION of the human race, 107.

EDUCATION in India, by training the memory, 232.

EGYPTIAN hieroglyphics preserved in the alphabet, 36.

ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart, his opinion of the Hindus, 77.

ENGLISH officers in India, 69.

ENGLISH oriental scholars, a list of, 22.

EOS and Ushas, 201.

ESTHONIAN prayer to Picker, the god of thunder, 211.

EURIPIDES, on the marriage of heaven and earth, 177.

EXAMINATIONS, work produced at, 20.

F.

FABLES, migration of, 27.

FALSEHOOD, no mortal sin, five cases of, 89.

FATHERS, Hymn to the, 241.

FINITE, the, impossible without the infinite, 126.

FIRE, names for, 41;
as a civilizer, 195;
a terrestrial deity, 195;
why worshipped, 196.

FIVE nations, the, 117.

FIVE sacrifices, religious duties, 249.

FRAVASHIS, in Persia, 240.

FREDERICK the Great, 34.

FRIAR Jordanus, opinion of Hindu character, 75.

FUNERAL ceremonies, 248;
an earlier worship, 252;
striking coincidences, 253;
burial and cremation, 253.

G.

GAINAS, language of, 97.

GALILEO, his theory, 135.

GANGES, sources of, 96;
its tributaries, 187.

GATAKA, 30.

GATHAS, 107.

GAUTAMA allows a lie, 88.

GERMANY, study of Sanskrit in, 22.

GEMS, the nine, 114.

GILL, Rev. W., myths and songs of the South Pacific, 169;
savage life in Polynesia, 233.

GODS in the Veda, their testimony for truth, 83;
the number of, 164;
river gods and goddesses, 167;
made and unmade by men, 182;
growth of a divine conc