.

PRIMITIVE man, 133.

PRAYERS for rain, 205;
for the dead, 262.

PROMETHEUS and Pramantha, 195.

PROTO-ARYAN language, 43.

PTOLEMY, 36.

PUMICE-STONE, 171.

PUNJAB, the, rivers of the, 183.

PURANAS, 162.

R.

RAGHU, 86.

RAJENDRALAL Mitra, on sacrifices, 251.

RAMA, on truth, 87.

RAMA BAVA, the anchorite, 271.

RAMAYANA, the plot of, 86;
yet recited, 99.

RAWLINSON, Sir Henry, 158.

READERS not numerous in ancient or modern times, 141.

RECITATION of the old epics in India, 99.

RELIGION, its home in India, 31;
our debt to Oriental religions, 36;
its transcendent character, 126;
metamorphic changes in, 128;
began in trust, not in fear, 197.

REMUSAT on the Goths, 104.

RENAISSANCE period in India, 110.

REVIVAL of religion in India, 270.

RIBHU and Orpheus, 201.

RIG-VEDA, editions of, now publishing, 98;
known by heart, 99;
a treasure to the anthropologist, 134;
character of its poems, 143;
its religion primitive, 144;
compliment to the author for his edition of, 163;
the number of hymns in, 163;
age of the oldest manuscripts, 221;
total number of words in, 228;
how transmitted, 231.

RINGOLD, Duke of Lituania, 209.

RISHIS, The Vedic, 168;
question of earth's origin, 180;
their intoxicating beverage, 243.

RITA, the third Beyond, 263.

RIVERS, as deities, 182;
hymn to, 183;
names of, in India, 185.

RIVER systems of Upper India, 188.

ROBERTSON'S Historical Disquisitions, 60.

RU, the sky-supporter, 170;
his bones, 171;
why pumice-stone, 173.

RUeCKERT'S Weisheit der Brahmanen, 22.

RUDRA, the howler, 199.

S.

S, pronounced as h, in Iranic languages, 189.

SACRIFICES, priestly, 148;
daily and monthly, 248.

SAKAS, invasion of the, 104.

SAKUNTALA, her appeal to conscience, 90.

SANSKRIT language, its study differently appreciated, 21;
use of studying, 23;
its supreme importance, 39;
its antiquity, 40;
its family relations, 40;
its study ridiculed, 45;
its linguistic influence, 46;
its moral influence, 47;
a dead language, 96;
early dialects of, 96;
still influential, 97;
scholars' use of, 98;
journals in, 96;
all living languages in India draw their life from, 100.

SANSKRIT literature, human interest of, 95;
the literature of India, 99;
manuscripts existing, 102;
divisions of, 104;
character of the ancient and the modern, 107;
known in Persia, 113;