Nidāna Sūtra, 273
Nigama-pariçishṭa, 275
Nighaṇṭu-çesha, 433
Nirukta of Yāska, 269-270, 273, 281
Nirvāṇa, 395
Nishka, 167
Nītiçataka, 378
Nītiçāstra, 374
Nītimanjarī, 378
Nītisāra, 374
North, Sir Thomas, 418
Northern Buddhists, 26
Nyāya system, 403-405
Nyāya-sūtra, 405
Oldenberg, Professor, 204
One Being, 131
Oral tradition, 122; its importance in India, 16
Ornaments, 164
Orthodoxy, 386
Oshadhi, 111
Owl, 117
Pāda (metrical unit), 55
Paddhatis, 271
Padmagupta, 331
Padmapurāṇa, 295
Paippalāda recension of Atharvaveda, 186
Pahlavas, 286
Pāli, 25; literature, 280, 283, 295, 307, 379; manuscript, 18
Palm-leaf MSS., 18
Panchaçikha, 393
Pancharātras, 402
Pancha-siddhāntikā, 435
Panchatantra, 368-373, 377, 378, 381, 382, 384, 419
Panchaviṃça Brāhmaṇa, 203, 21O
Panegyrics, 127
Pāṇini, 17, 22, 36, 39, 265, 268, 269, 279, 309, 3IO. 326, 407, 430 431, 433
Panjāb, 9, 139, 140, 143, 145, 150, 160, 175, 410, 415
Panjābī dialect, 27
Paper MSS., 18
Parāçara, 262
Parāçara-smṛiti, 429
Paradox, 132
Pāraskara Gṛihya Sūtra, 250, 429
Parchment, 19
Paribhāshendu-çekhara, 431
Pariçishṭas, 186, 270, 274, 275
Parrots, 150
Parsis and Haoma, 146
Parushṇī (Ravi), 140, 154, 155
Pāṭaliputra (Patna), 13, 308, 410, 411, 415, 434
Patanjali, 22, 23, 175, 189, 265, 308, 396, 397, 400, 431
Path of the fathers and of the gods, 117
Pauravas, 410
Pavamāna hymns, 43
Peahens, 150
Peepul tree, 146
Persians, 7
Personification, 67, 69 Pessimism, 11, 230, 392, 424
Phallus worship, 153
Philosophical poems, 131-138
Philosophy, Greek and Indian, 421-423
Philostratus, 415
Phiṭ-Sūtras, 432