Ardor (74 page)

Bul
ā
k
ī
,
The Three Aspects of the Absolute,
sheet 1 from the
N
ā
th Carit
, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 1823. Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur.

Master of Pahari painting at the court of Mankot (attr.),
The Saptar
ṣ
is
, miniature on paper, c. 1675–1700. Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh.

Jagadeva,
The Goddess Sarasvat
ī
, marble statue, 12th century
A.D.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.

Peacocks
, sandstone bas relief, 1st century
A.D.
Stupa 1, Sanchi.

Young Girl Meditating with Lotus Flower in Her Palm
, sculpture in black stone, 10th–11th century
A.D.
State Museum, Lucknow.

The Jamb
ū
dv
ī
pa Continent, with Its Eight Mountain Ranges and Mount Meru at the Center
, gouache on paper, Rajasthan, 17th century
A.D.
Ajit Mookerjee Collection, New Delhi.

Diagram for the propitiatory sacrifice to the nine celestial bodies (
grahayajña
), colors and ink on paper, Rajasthan, 18th century
A.D.

Rukmi
ṇī
, sandstone sculpture, Nokhas, c. 10th century
A.D.
Archaeological Survey of India.

Sacrificial Procession
, wooden votive panels from Pitsa, 540
B.C.E.
National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

Vi
ṣṇ
u Sleeping on
Ś
e
ṣ
a
, Sanctuary of Budhanilkantha, 7th century
A.D.
Photograph by the author.

Master Durga (attr.),
Ashram of the Sage M
ā
rka
ṇḍ
eya and the Ocean of Milk
, sheet 5 from the
Durg
ā
Carit
, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, detail, Jodhpur, c. 1780–1790. Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur.

N
ā
r
ā
ya
ṇ
a with Antelope Hide
, wall panel in sandstone, detail, 5th century
A.D.
Dashavatara Temple, Deogarh.

Sacri
fi
cial Altar with Head of Nandin.
Yogyakarta Museum, Prambanan.

Noah’s Ark
, opaque watercolor and gold on paper from a copy of the
Zübdetü’t-tevârih
(
The Essence of Stories
), Istanbul, 1583. Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, manuscript T. 414, f. 61b.

Hei Tiki
, jade and wax-lacquer pendant, c. 1750. Te Papa Tongarewa Museum, Wellington.

Sacri
fi
cial Sword Used in the Temples of Kali
, steel, Bengal, 19th century
A.D.
Ajit Mookerjee Collection, New Delhi.

Ś
iva Pours Over His Head the Waters of the Ganges, Personified in the Goddess Gang
ā
, gouache on paper, Himachal Pradesh, 18th century
A.D.
Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh.

Bul
ā
k
ī
(attr.),
Cosmic Oceans
, sheet 45 from the
N
ā
th Carit
, opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 1823. Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur.

Wooden panel with textile motif, ceiling of the Sumtsek (Triple-Storied Temple), c.
A.D.
1200. Alchi.

Young Girl Meditating with Lotus Flower in Her Palm
(rear view), sculpture in black stone, 10th–11th century
A.D.
State Museum, Lucknow.

Apsaras
, mural painting, c. 5th century
A.D.
Cave 17, Ajanta.

Ga
ṇ
e
ś
a
, sculpture, detail. Java.

INDEX

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Aaron

abd
ā
ls
(“substitutes” for prophets);
see also
Apkallus; Saptar
ṣ
is; Seven Seers

Abel

abhaya
(“non-fear”)

Abraham

Achilles

action, ritual action (
karman
);
see also karman

Adam

ā
-dh
ā
-
(“to establish inside, within itself”)

adhvaryu
(officiant concerned with sacrificial gestures)

Aditi

Ᾱ
ditya

Aesculapius

Aesop

affinity

Afghanistan

Africa

Agni (“Fire”)

agnicayana
(construction of the fire altar);
see also
fire altar

agnihotra
(“fire oblation”);
see also
libation; oblation

agni
ṣṭ
oma
(
soma
sacrifice)

agny
ā
dheya
(“installation of fires”)

aham
(“I”)

ā
havan
ī
ya
(fire “into which the oblation is poured”);
see also
fire;
g
ā
rhapatya

Ahi Budhnya (“Serpent of the Deep”)

ahi
ṃ
s
ā
(“nonviolence”);
see also
violence, nonviolence

Aitareya Br
ā
hma
ṇ
a

Aja Ekap
ā
d

ā
k
āś
a
(“space”);
see also kha
; space

ak
ṣ
a
(
Terminalia bellirica
)

ak
ṣ
ara
(“indestructible”)

Alberich

algorithm

altar (
vedi
);
see also vedi

ā
malaka
(
Phyllanthus emblica
)

America

analogical pole

analogy;
see also
connective mode

Ananta (“Infinite”);
see also
Ś
e
ṣ
a

Anaximander

ancestors (
pit
ṛ
)

A
ṅ
giras

animals

anirukta
(“unspoken,” “indistinct”);
see also
indistinct

anna
(“food”);
see also
food and eating

anointing

Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe

antarik
ṣ
a
(“intermediate space”)

antelope (
m
ṛ
ga
), black antelope

anthropology

anti-gods (
asuras
);
see also
Asuras

Antigone

anu
ṣṭ
ubh
(meter of thirty-two syllables);
see also
meters

ā
pas
(“waters”);
see also
water

Ᾱ
pastamba
Ś
rauta S
ū
tra

Apkallus;
see also abd
ā
ls
; Holy Carps; Saptar
ṣ
is; Seven Seers

Apollo

Apsaras (celestial Nymphs);
see also
Gh
ṛ
t
ā
c
ī
; Nymphs;
Śā
radvat
ī
; Urva
śī

Apsu (primordial waters)

Ā
ptyas

ar-
(“to articulate,” “to correspond”)

Arafa

Arbuda K
ā
draveya

arc-
(“shine,” “pray”);
see also arka

archaic

Archilochus

ardor (
tapas
);
see also tapas

Aristophanes

Arjuna

arka
(“radiance”)

arrow

Aru
ṇ
a Aupave
ś
i

Arundhat
ī

Ᾱ
rya

Ᾱ
ry
ā
varta (“the Land of the Aryans”)

asat
(“that which is not,” “unmanifest”);
see also
unmanifest