Ardor (79 page)

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Authors: Roberto Calasso

Tags: #Literary Collections, #Essays, #Social Science, #Anthropology, #Cultural

Soma, King

soma
sacrifice

Sophists

Sophocles

sovereignty

space (
ā
k
āś
a
,
kha
,
antarik

a
);
see also
ā
k
āś
a
;
kha

speech (
v
ā
c
);
see also
V
ā
c;
v
ā
c

Spinoza, Baruch

splendor;
see also
Ś
r
ī

spoons (
juh
ū
,
sruva
,
upabh

t
)

ś
raddh
ā
(“trust,” “faith”)

Ś
r
ī

Staal, Frits

Strehlow, Carl Friedrich

strength

Strindberg, August

study

substance, matter

substitution

substitutive thinking;
see also
digital mode of thought

Sud
ā
s

suicide;
see also
Islamist suicide-killers

Su-ilisu

sukha
(“happiness”);
see also
happiness; joy

Sumerians

Sun (S
ū
rya)

sun

Supar
ṇī

surplus;
see also bhuman
; residue;
ś
esa

S
ū
tra (“thread,” “rule”)

sva
(“of his own,” “self”);
see also
ā
tman
; Self; self-referentiality

sv
ā
dhy
ā
ya
(“inner recitation”);
see also
reader

sv
ā
h
ā
(ritual exclamation)

svayambh
ū
(“self-existing”)

Ś
vetaketu
Ā
ru

eya or Audd
ā
laki

svid
(particle that introduces a question)

Svi
ṣṭ
ak

t (“he who offers well the sacrifice”)

Swaminathan, C. R.

Swiss Guards

symbol

Taittir
ī
ya Br
ā
hma

a

Taittir
ī
ya Sa

hit
ā

Taittir
ī
ya Upani

ad

tamas
(“darkness”);
see also sattva

tan-
(“to tend,” “to extend”)

Tantrism

t
ā
n
ū
naptra
(ceremony connected to Tan
ū
nap
ā
t, a form of Agni “son of himself”)

tapas
(“ardor”)

T
ā
r
ā

tat tvam asi
(“this you are”)

tejas
(“incandescent energy”)

témenos
(land marked out and excluded from common use)

temple

Ten Kings

Thales

Theogony
(Hesiod)

thought;
see also
Vedic thought

Thucydides

thunderbolt (
vajra
)

th
ý
ein
(“to sacrifice”)

Tiki,
tiki

Timaeus
(Plato)

time

Tiresias

tri
ṣṭ
ubh
(verse form consisting of four lines of eleven syllables);
see also
meters

truth (

ta
,
satya
);
see also

ta
; untruth

Tva
ṣṭṛ
(“Craftsman”)

ty
ā
ga
(“yielding,” “detachment”)

ucchi
ṣṭ
a
(“residue”);
see also
residue;
Ś
e

a;
ś
e

a

Udd
ā
laka

ru

i

udg
ā
t

(officiant “chanter” of the hymns of the
S
ā
maveda
);
see also
chant, chanter

udumbara
(
Ficus glomerata
)

universal society

unmanifest (
asat
);
see also
manifest

untruth;
see also
truth

Upakosala K
ā
mal
ā
yana

upani

ad
(“secret connection”);
see also bandhu
; connections; correspondences; equivalences; nexus;
sampad

Upani

ads;
see also B

had
ā
ra

yaka Upani

ad
;
Ch
ā
ndogya Upani

ad
;
Ka

ha Upani

ad
;
Taittir
ī
ya Upani

ad

upasad
(“siege,” triple offering of ghee to Agni, Soma, and Vi
ṣṇ
u)

Urabunna

Urva
śī
;
see also
Nymphs

U
śā
n
ā
(plant from which the
soma
is prepared)

U

as;
see also
Dawn

U

asta C
ā
kr
ā
ya

a

Utnapi
š
tim

Uttara N
ā
r
ā
ya

a (the second part of the
puru

as
ū
kta
)

V
ā
c (“Speech”)

v
ā
c
(“speech,” “voice”);
see also
speech

vagina

vajra
(“thunderbolt”);
see also
thunderbolt

Valeri, Valerio

V
ā
lm
ī
ki

value;
see also
exchange; money

V
ā
madeva

v
ā
naprastha
(“withdrawn into the forest”)

vara
(“boon”);
see also
boons and curses

Varanasi

V
ā
r
ṣṇ
ya

Varu

a
(Lüders)

Varu

a

varu

apragh
ā
sa
(rite of atonement connected to Varu

a)

va

a

(ritual exclamation)

Vasi
ṣṭ
ha

Vasi
ṣṭ
ha Caikit
ā
neya

V
ā
stavya (“connected to the site and to the residue”);
see also
Rudra;
v
ā
stu

v
ā
stu
(“site,” “residue”);
see also
residue;
ś
e

a
;
ucchi
ṣṭ
a

Vasu

Vatican Council, Second

V
ā
yu (“Wind”)

veda
(“knowledge”);
see also
knowledge

Veda

Ved
ā
nta;
see also
Ś
a

kara

vedi
(altar);
see also
altar

Vedic civilization

Vedic thought;
see also
thought

vegetarianism

vijñ
ā
na
(“discernment”)

victim

Videha

village

Vinat
ā

violence, nonviolence

vípra
(“quivering,” poetic inspiration);
see also
poetry

vir
ā
j
(vedic verse form consisting of four lines of ten syllables);
see also
meters

Vir
ā
j

visible;
see also
invisible

Vi
ṣṇ
u

vis
ṛṣṭ
i
(“further creation”);
see also
creation

vi

uvat
(central day of a yearlong sacrifice)

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