e of laws, 30;
their true age, 111;
his connection with the deluge, 155.

MANUSCRIPTS, the first collectors of, 224.

MAORI Genesis, 173.

MARUTS, the storm-gods, 199.

MAUI, son of Ru, 171;
legend of, 171;
its origin, 173.

MEGASTHENES on village life, 65;
on Hindu honesty, 72.

MELANIPPE, 177.

MEMORY, power of, 232.

METAMORPHIC changes in religions, 128.

MILL, History of India, 59;
estimate of Hindu character, 60.

MINA, its weight, 125.

MITRA, 156;
invoked, 215.

MODERN Sanskrit literature, 107.

MOHAMMEDANS, their opinion of the Hindus, 75;
the number of sects, 76;
treatment of Hindus, 90.

MONOTHEISM in the Veda, 164.

MORALITY, our, Saxon, 38.

MORAL depravity in India, 93.

MUNRO, Thomas, Sir, opinion of Hindus, 61.

MUeLLER, Max, his teachers, 45;
intercourse with Hindus, 81;
opinion of their character, 82.

N.

NAKSHATRAS, The twenty-seven, 148.

NAKTA and Nyx, 201.

NALA, 110.

NATIVE scholars, 81.

NEARCHUS, 225.

NEW and Full-Moon Sacrifices, 252.

NEW Testament, Revised Edition, 141.

NEWSPAPERS, Sanskrit, 98.

NINE gems or classics, 115.

NORTHERN conquerors, 106.

NUMERALS in Sanskrit, 46.

O.

OATH, Taking an, in village communities, 68;
its understanding by the Hindus, 69;
fear of punishment connected with, 70.

OLD Testament, 140.

OPHIR, 28.

ORANGE River, 188.

ORIENTAL SCHOLARS, names and work hardly known, 22.

ORISSA, 96.

ORME, 60.

ORPHEUS and Ribhu, 201.

OS, oris, 44.

OUDE, 189.

OURANOS, 213.

P.

PAHLAVI, translation of the Pankatantra into, 115.

PALESTINE, 33.

PALI dialect, 107.

PANDITS, 57;
Professor Wilson on the, 58.

PANINI, 230.

PANKATANTRA, 114.

PAPYROS, 224.

PARGANYA, 202;
hymn to, 205;
derivation of name, 207.

PARVANA Sraddha, 260.

PERIEGESIS, 223.

PERIODOS, 223.

PERIPLUS, or circumnavigations, 222.

PERJURY, common in India, 71.

PERKONS, thunder, 210.

PERKUNA, 212.

PERKUNAS, Lituanian god of thunder, 210.

PERKUNO, 212.

PERSIANS, what we owe to, 36.

PETERSBURGH Dictionary, 183.

PHOENICIANS, what we owe to, 36;
their letters, 222.

PINDA-PITRIYAGNA, 251.

PIPAL tree, 50.

PITRIS, the fathers, 239;
invoked, 241.

PITRIYAGNA-SACRIFICES, 248.

PLATO, 142.

PLINY, Indian rivers known to, 191.

POLITICAL communities, 31.

POLYTHEISM, the kind of, in the Veda, 165.

POSITIVIST sentiments of a Brahman, 87