5.

plants, worship of (see trees), 540;
plant-souls, see metempsychosis.

Plato, 2, 559.

Plotinus, 561.

pocket-altars, 475.

pole-rite, 378, 443, 534.

political divisions, 26, 27.

polyandry, 467, 535.

polygamy, 533.

polytheism, 11, 13, 529, 547.

Pongol, 449, 528.

pools, 254. 370, 372, 404, 444, 478.

pope, 557.

Porphyry, 561.

Portuguese rule in India, 566.

Prabh[=a], 452.

Pradyumna, 441, 442.

Prabl[=a]da, 397.

Praj[=a]pati, 142, 182 ff., 196 ff., 404, 412,475, 492, 554.

prak[=r.]ti, 396, 397, 399, 507.

pras[=a]da (see grace) 429.

pray[=a]ga, 435.

Prem S[=a]gar, 567.

priest, 28, 29, 40, 176, 179, 370;
privileges of, 263,549;
epic priest, 352.

P[=r.]cn[=i], 97.

Prometheus, 107, 165.

Punj[=a]b, 30, 33, 34.

Pur[=a][n.]as, 2, 3, 424, 430, 434 ff., 476, 503.

Puranic S[=a]nkhya, 495.

purity, 148, 369.

purgatory, 557.

Purusa, 142, 397, 447.

P[=u]rvam[=i]m[=i]m[=a]ms[=a], 495.

P[=u][s.]an, 5, 41, 47, 50 ff., 80, 101, 463, 464, 475.

Pu[s.]kara, 372.

Pu[s.][t.]i, 452.

P[=u]lan[=a], 444.

p[=u]tika, 369.

Pythagoras, 209, 559 ff., 580, note 3.

quakerism, 567.

quietism (see Yoga), 567.

R[=a]dh[=a], R[=a]dh[=a] Vallabhis, 492, 506.

R[=a]hu, 367.

rain-gods, 99, 528.

rajas, 507.

R[=a]jas[=u]ya, 444, 448, 477.

R[=a]k[s.]as (see devils), 419.

ram, 445.

R[=a]ma, 349, 397, 498.

R[=a]macandra, 454, 506.

Ramaism, 315, 349, 427, 485, 500 ff.

R[=a]m[=a]nand, 502, 510, 513.

R[=a]m[=a]nuja, 447, 482, 496 ff., 505, 507.

R[=a]m[=a]ya[n.]a, 349 ff.

Ramcaritmanas, 503.

R[=a]mmohun Roy, 515.

Ras[=a] (Volga, 26), 30, 169.

R[=a]s D[=a]sas, 502.

R[a=]s Y[=a]tr[=a], 456, 505.

Rath Y[=a]tr[=a], 456.

Rail, 452.

R[=a]udras,447.

R[=a]vana, 470.

redemption, doctrine of, 569.

reformation of sects, 508, 522.

relics, 556.

remnant-worship, 151, 157.

Renaissance, 2, 435.

renunciation (see Yogi, Sanny[=a]si), 394.

responsability, moral, 380.

Ribhus ([R.]bhavas), 93, 123, 169, 382.

Right (see Dharma), 249, 422, 442, 554.

Right-hand cult, 490.

Rig Veda ([r.]g), 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 ff., 22, 29, 37 ff., 44;
in epic, 360, 419.

Rishis ([R.][s.]is), see Seers.

ritual, 12 ff., 16 ff., 106, 124, 175.

ritualism, 568.

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