Piçāchas, 114
Pigeon, 117
Pingala, 267
Pippalāda, 240
Pischel, Professor, 361, 432, 434
Plants deified, 111
Plays in inscriptions, 367
Plotinus, 423
Plough deified, 112
Poetical skill in Rigveda, 66
Poetics, 433-434
Political organisation, 158
Popular spells, 185
Porphyry, 423
Porus, 410
Prabodha-chandrodaya, 366, 367
Praçna Upanishad, 240
Pragātha metres, 58
Prajāpati, 77, 101, 102, 132, 133, 136, 137, 181
Prākrit, 22, 23, 25, 310, 322; accent, 53; dialects, 27; in plays, 27, 348, 350; in lyrics, 344
Prākrita-prakāça, 432
Prakriyā-kaumudī, 432
Prāṇa, 200
Prātiçākhyas, 38, 46, 50, 51, 188, 265, 266
Prauḍha Brāhmaṇa, 210
Pravarādhyāya, 275
Prayogas, 271
Priest, domestic, 159, 193, 195
Prometheus, Indian, 108
Prose, 187, 202, 203, 207, 278; oldest, 32; in drama, 350
Ptolemy II., 415
Punishment, future, 116
Purāṇas, 52, 138, 194, 281, 299-302, 325, 388, 394, 395, 430
Purukutsa, 154
Purushottamadeva, 433
Pythagoras, 422
Rāghavapāṇḍavīya, 331
Rāhu, 114
Rain, 90
Rain-god, 91
Rājaçekhara, 366
Rājatarangiṇī, 430
Rājayoga, 398
Rakshases, 114
Rakshohan (Agni), 97
Rām Charit Mānas, 317
Rāma, 312; episode of, 295, 301, 306
Rāmachandra, 432
Rāmānanda, 316
Rāmāyaṇa, 22, 133, 175, 216, 230, 281, 288, 295, 302-317, 325, 327, 414; allegorical theory about, 311; date of, 306-310; episodes of, 316; first Kāvya, 306, 311; language of, 309-310; main story of, 313-315; origin of, 304-305; popularity of, 317; recensions of, 303; two parts of, 311; Vishnuite redaction of, 315-316
Rāmāyaṇa-champū, 304
Rāmāyaṇa-kathāsāra-manjarī, 303
Rāṇāyanīyas, 173
Ratnākara, 330
