ABHASSARA, a superior celestial world, 29 | Ananda, the nephew of Gótama, and his 32, 63, 64.
Abhidharmma, the third division of the sacred books, (EASTERN MONACHISM, page 167), 299, 311, 510, 514.
Abraham, 129, 145.
Achmetha, 12.
Adam, 67, 146, 212.
Adam's peak, a mountain in Ceylon, 208, 211, 212.
Advices, miscellaneous, 460, 484.
Age, in which Gótama lived, 353.
personal attendant, 9, 146, 231, 234, 237, 246, 249, 260, 285, 287, 296, 297, 299, 311, 315, 321, 344, 364, 366, 375, 376, 378, 406.
Anátma, unreality, 495. Anaxagoras, 20.
Anaximander, 8, 20, 34.
Ancestors, of Gótama, 125.
Anépidu, a merchant, 112, 216, 276, 294,
Agnyá-sétra, a class of worlds, 2.
Anitya, impermanency, 495. Anómá, a river, 160.
Agra-sráwaka, the two principal priests of Anótatta, a lake, 16, 17, 31, 142, 158, 182,
Arúpa-brahma-lóka, a class of worlds, 26, | Bhagawat, an epithet of Budha, 216, 359. 43, 106, 148, 184, 187, 441, 445, 449.
Budha, 197, 260, 328.
Ajápála, a tree, 167, 182, 183.
Ajásat, son of Bimsara, 236, 257, 285, 315,
Alow, a city, 261, 356.
Amarapura, a sect in Ceylon, (E. M. 328),
Antah-kalpa, a cycle, 1, 5, 7, 28.
Antediluvians, 68, 71.
Anthony, 358.
Anuradhapura, an ancient city in Ceylon, 15, 52, 59, 212, 463, 510, 518.
Anurudha, a priest, 124, 227, 231, 298, 348, 454, 488.
Apannaka Játaka, 108, 398. Aparagódána, the continent west of Méru, 4, 449.
Apollo, 141, 145, 349. Apollonius, 19, 358.
Apo-sangwartta, the destruction of the
world by water, 32. Arabia, Arabs, 17, 24, 44, 159. Aramunu, modes of thought, 500. Aranyakanga, (E. M. 133), an ordinance,
Archery, 114, 150. Armour, 497.
Aristotle, 358.
Arrian, 516.
Arúpa, incorporeal, 361.
Arupáwachara, a class of worlds, 3.
Arya-margga, the paths of purity, 498.
Bhawa, existence, 439, 442, 496.
Bhawaná, meditation, (E. Μ. 243), 33, 52, 150, 188, 277, 312.
Asankya, a number inconceivably vast, 1, Bimsara, king of Rajagaha, 140, 163, 191,
Associates, improper, 460, 476.
Astronomy of the Singhalese and Hindus, 22.
Aswakarnna, a circle of rocks, 12, 31.
Asúr, an order of beings, 5, 37, 46, 58, 330, 365.
Ata-sil, the first eight of the ten precepts, 488, 489.
Atheism, of the system taught by Gótama,
Awakása-lóka, the world of space, 3. Awidya, ignorance, 392, 413, 432, 435, 496. Ayatana, the sentient organs and their re- lative objects, 403. Ayupála, a priest, 515.
Baka, a brahma, 336.
Bakkula, a priest, 501.
Bála-pandita-sútra, a discourse delivered by Gótama, 60, 399, 485.
Balu, an ascetic, 330.
213, 220, 236, 237, 239, 248, 251, 271, 285, 293, 315.
Bird on the Bauddho and Jaina Reli- gions, 518.
Birth, repetition of, 180, 192, 280, 433. Bódhi-mandala, the centre of Jambud- wípa, 4.
Bódi-pakshika-dharmma, its 37 sections,
Bódhisat, a candidate for the supreme Budhaship, 3, 13, 45, 49, 50, 58, 59, 88, 90, 98, 101, 416.
Body, the organized, 388, 399.
Bó-tree, the tree under which Gótama be- came a Budha, 4, 27, 28, 146, 169, 379, 511.
Bowdyánga, seven sections of wisdom,
Brahma, 33, 41, 65, 68, 73, 77, 393.
Brahma, the dweller in a brahma-lóka, 26. Brahma-jála-sútra, a discourse delivered by Gótama, 10, 388.
Brahma-lóka, a superior celestial world, 2, 5, 24, 25, 28, 30, 36, 37, 41, 43, 56, 88, 89, 103, 253, 336, 440, 472, 476.
Brahmans, Brahmanism, 7, 8, 12, 16, 33, 41, 42, 56, 71, 72, 73, 77, 78, 81, 148, 223, 272, 323, 336, 359, 393, 442, 469. Brahmas, the primitive inhabitants of the earth, 63, 77, 127.
Bana, the sacred word, 37, 40, 42, 55, 184, Brahmáyu-sútra-sanné, quoted, 373.
Burma, 13, 21, 82, 86, 106, 133, 140, 170, Dágoba, a monument surmounting a relic,
Burning of the dead, 309, 315, 319, 332, 347,500.
Caste, 49, 65-85, 140.
Cedrus deodára, 19.
Ceylon, 18, 20, 38, 42, 53, 54, 58, 77, 80, 82, 88, 99, 132, 159, 183, 194, 207, 213, 229, 259, 260, 346, 356, 359, 379, 449, 503, 509, 518.
Chakrawartti, a universal emperor, 30, 126, 143, 149, 151, 157, 206, 411, 477, 490, 504.
Champá, a city, 163, 246. Chandapprajóta, king of Udéni, 243. Chandragutta, 452, 515. Channa, a noble, 146, 158, 161.
Charita, a state of the mind, 495.
Chaturmaharájika, a celestial world, 20, 24, 25, 28, 43, 318. Chaturwidha-árya-satya, the four great truths, 496.
Chaturwidha-ásrawa, the four principles by which cleaving to existence is pro- duced, 496.
Chétana, the mental powers, 405, 422, 432. Chétiya, a king, 469.
Child, duties of, towards parent, 460, 476. China, Chinese, 82, 133, 140, 144, 148, 184, 211, 214, 344, 354, 355, 357, 433, 507. Chinchi, a female unbeliever, 61, 124, 275, 447.
(Ε. Μ. 224), 160, 162, 181, 183, 196, 208, 318, 353, 456, 519.
Damba, a tree, 18. Dambadiwa, a continent, 19.
Dána, almsgiving, 283.
Dancing women, 153.
Dasa bala, the ten powers, 380.
Dasa sil, the ten obligations binding upon
a priest, 488.
Davis, Samuel, 23.
Davis's Chinese, 507.
Death, 103, 231, 389, 390, 396, 402, 433, 440.
Declination of the sun, 5.
Demerit, 450.
Democritus, 8, 12, 246, 393.
Destruction of the world, modes of the,
Déwa, a divinity, the inhabitant of a déwa-lóka, 22, 36, 37, 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 49, 51, 53, 118, 128, 141, 147, 163, 165, 166, 186, 228, 277, 279, 299, 405.
Déwadatta, a sceptical brother-in-law of Gótama, 61, 124, 231, 315, 326, 339, 383, 385, 398, 455, 485.
Déwála, a place in which a déwa is wor- shipped, 42, 335.
Déwa-lóka, a celestial world, 2, 5, 24, 25,
28, 33, 103, 126, 448, 472, 476, 489, 491. Déwi, the female of a déwa, 165, 182, 205, 282, 375.
Dharmma, the truth, the teachings of Budha, 36, 87, 91, 181, 184, 203, 216, 357, 379, 449.
Chúlakamma-wibhanga-sútra, quoted, Dharmma-páda, four truths, 497.
Earth, its revolutions, 5. Ecbatana, 12.
Eclipses, 5, 23, 47.
Eden, rivers of, 16.
Egypt, Egyptians, 8, 17, 34, 62, 69, 70, 72, 82, 126, 145, 149, 241, 242, 284, 369, 394.
Elements of existence, 399.
Elements, the four, 400.
Epicurus, 35, 436.
Erinnyes, 398.
Error, modes of, 10, 473.
Ethics, of Budhism, 460.
Evil principle, how first generated, 64. Existence, 435, 440.
Existence, the circle of successive, 391, 432.
Expression, the era of, 93.
Gogerley, the Rev. D. J., 15, 25, 26, 46, 47, 99, 112, 181, 265, 388, 391, 424, 429, 431.
Gótama Bódhisat, when the merchant Suppáraka, 13; a yaká, 45, 95; the rishi Kásyapa, 50; a merchant, 90; the king Sestratápa, 90; the brahman Brahma, 91; a prince, 92; a chakra- wartti, 93; his births during the ex- istence of the Budhas who immediately preceded him, 94; refuses the rahatship and nirwána, 98, 103, 105; his various births as related in the Játakas, 99; his virtues and privileges, 101; exercises the 30 páramitás, 102; a squirrel, 106; the son of Sujáta, 107; a merchant, 108; a tradesman, 113; a lion, 113; a monkey, 113; the ascetic Kapila, 132; the déwa Santusita, 140.
Gótama Budha, the sakwala in which he appeared, 4; delivers the Aruna-wati Sútra, 9; protects the moon when at- tacked by Ráhu, 22; his cosmical doc- trines, 35; delivers the Maha Samaya discourse, 40; visited by the king of the yakás, 45; repeats a stanza to the asur Rahu, 47; describes the sufferings in the narakas, 48; visits Sunaparanta, 57; relates the history of Widhúra, 73; the qualities he required in a wife, 78; on caste, 80; the reviver of a more an- cient system, 86; why called Sidhartta, 92; the cause of the respect he receives, 98; gives an account of his previous births, 99; his ancestors, 125; his con- ception, 141; thirty-two great wonders appear, 143; his birth, 145; receives the homage of the déwas and brahmas, 146; is worshipped by Kála-déwala, 147; receives his name, 148; his great- ness foretold by brahmans, 149; his nurses, 150; remains seated in the air at a ploughing-festival, 150; the four sights foretold that would cause him to become an ascetic, 151; his marriage with Yasódhara-déwi, 152; exhibits his prowess and learning before his rela- tives, 153; sees the four signs, an old man, a leper, a dead body, and a recluse, 154, 155; his son Rahula born, 156; is praised by the princess Kiságótami, 156; resolves to abandon the world, 157; leaves the palace, 158; cuts off his hair, 161; visits Rajagaha, 162; exercises asceticism, 164; sees five dreams, 166; receives an offering of food from Sujátá, 168; sits under the bó-tree, 170; his
contest with Wasawartti-Mára, 171; resists the wiles of the daughters of Mára, 179; receives the supreme Bud- haship, 179; utters the anékajáti stanzas, 180; remains under the bó-tree, 181; receives an offering from two merchants, 182; delivers his first discourse, 186; eighty-six princes become his disciples, 188; a thousand fire-worshippers em- brace the priesthood, 189; Bimsara be- comes his disciple, 191; takes posses- sion of the Wéluwana monastery, 194; Mugalan and Seriyut become his prin- cipal disciples, 195; holds a convoca- tion, 198; visits Kapilawastu, 198; car- ries the alms-bowl through the city, 202; visits Yasódhará-déwi, 204; Nanda, his brother, and Rahula, his son, become priests, 206; visits Ceylon, 207, 356; fotetells the prosperity of a labourer's wife, 213; attends a plough- ing festival, 215; receives the Jétawana monastery from Anépidu, 216; receives an offering from Wisákhá, 226; receives Anurudha, and other princes, as priests, 231; appoints Ananda to be his per- sonal attendant, 234; visits the city of Wisálá, 235; receives medicine from Jíwaka, 246; makes a law relative to the priestly robe, 249; overcomes the murderer Angulimála, 249; answers the tirttaka Sabhiya, 254; gives advice to Sacha, 255; converses with the mer- chant Punna, 259; delivers a discourse to the mendicant Sachabadda, 260; over- comes the demon Alawaka, 261; his contests with Upáli and other tirttakas, 263; teaches Kútadanta what is the most proper alms-offering, 272; par- takes of food at the house of Kéni, 273; induces Séla to embrace the priesthood, 274; gives advice to a priest, 280; di- rects the wife of Bandhula to return to his house, 281; the king of Kosol wishes to become his relative, 283; foretells that a flower-girl will become a queen, 285; directs Utphalagandha to say bana, 286; gives advice to the king of Kosol, 287; receives various offerings, 288; is visited by Sekra, 288; declares that he has had no teacher, 294; causes a mango-tree to appear, 296; the tirt- takas are put to shame, 296; Sekra prepares for him a magnificent pavilion, 297; says bana in the déwa-lóka Tawu- tisa, 298, 366; descends to the earth by a ladder, 301; proclaims the wisdom of Seriyut, 302; gives advice to the naga Nandopananda, 303; explains the
dreams of the king of Kosol, 304; causes 500 princes to become priests, 308; admits Prajapati and 500 prin- cesses to profession, 314; attempts made to take his life by Déwadatta, by means of an archer, a stone, and an ele- phant, 319; his doctrines embraced by Ajásat, 325; refuses the requests of Déwadatta, who comes to destruction, 328, 385; overcomes Kórakhatti and other tirttakas, 330; his doctrines em- braced by Bawari, 3333; visits the brahma-lóka and converts the brahma Baka, 336; his disciple Mugalan attains nirwana, 338; his father-in-law, Supra- budha, comes to destruction, 340; his wife, Yasódhará-déwi, attains nirwana, 342; partakes of an offering of pork, 343; is taken ill, 343; gives a last charge to the priests, 346; his death, 347; the burning of his body, 348; the preservation and distribution of his relics, 349; the age in which he lived, 353; his various names, 354; the places in which he resided, 356; his character, 358; his supremacy, 360; his manhood, 363; his stature, 364; is visited by Ráhu, 364; the brahman Atula at- tempts to measure his height, 365; his manner of walking, 366; his employ- ment during the three watches, 370; his deportment, 371; observances when approaching him, 274, 374; his gentle- ness, 374; manner in which he said bana, 377; his supernatural endow- ments, 380; objections to his wisdom brought by Milinda, 384; proofs of his wisdom, 257, 386; his wisdom unde- rived, 389; convinces the tirttaka Sa- chaka, 425; illustrates the effects of karma, 446; received his own greatness from his previous karma, 448; receives an offering from Ambapáli, 457; gives an admonition relative to the taking of life, 464.
Gow, the fourth part of a yojana, 11, 13, 27.
Graha, the planets, 24. Grahana, an eclipse, 5, 23.
Grahapati, a householder, a laic, 127, 266,
Greeks, 8, 10, 20, 27, 34, 42, 44, 47, 48, 69, 72, 75, 115, 148, 154, 169, 238, 394, 398. Grote's History of Greece, 8, 70, 241, 353. Guardian déwas, the four, 24, 46, 51, 126, 128, 142, 144, 145, 183, 189.
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