D.

DACOITS, 79.

DARWIN, 141.

DAWN, the, 173.

DAYANANDA'S introduction to the Rig-Veda, 104.

DELUGE, the, 153; in Hindu literature, 154; not borrowed from the Old Testament, 157; its natural origin, 159.

DEPARTED spirits, 237; honors paid to, 240; ceremonies to, 246.

DEVA, 159; the meaning of, 236.

DEVAPATNIS, wives of the gods, 164.

DEVAPI'S prayer for rain, 204.

DEVELOPMENT of human character in India and Europe, 118.

DIALECTS in Asoka's time, 106.

DIPHTHERA, 222.

DIVI Manes, 240.

DONKEY, in the lion's skin, 27; in the tiger's skin, 28.

DRUIDS, their memory, 233.

DYAUS and Zeus, 213.

E.

EABANI, 158.

EAST, the, our original home, 49.

ECLIPTIC, Indian, 153.

EDUCATION of the human race, 107.

EDUCATION in India, by training the memory, 232.

EGYPTIAN hieroglyphics preserved in the alphabet, 36.

ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart, his opinion of the Hindus, 77.

ENGLISH officers in India, 69.

ENGLISH oriental scholars, a list of, 22.

EOS and Ushas, 201.

ESTHONIAN prayer to Picker, the god of thunder, 211.

EURIPIDES, on the marriage of heaven and earth, 177.

EXAMINATIONS, work produced at, 20.

F.

FABLES, migration of, 27.

FALSEHOOD, no mortal sin, five cases of, 89.

FATHERS, Hymn to the, 241.

FINITE, the, impossible without the infinite, 126.

FIRE, names for, 41; as a civilizer, 195; a terrestrial deity, 195; why worshipped, 196.

FIVE nations, the, 117.

FIVE sacrifices, religious duties, 249.

FRAVASHIS, in Persia, 240.

FREDERICK the Great, 34.

FRIAR Jordanus, opinion of Hindu character, 75.

FUNERAL ceremonies, 248; an earlier worship, 252; striking coincidences, 253; burial and cremation, 253.

G.

GAINAS, language of, 97.

GALILEO, his theory, 135.

GANGES, sources of, 96; its tributaries, 187.

GATAKA, 30.

GATHAS, 107.

GAUTAMA allows a lie, 88.

GERMANY, study of Sanskrit in, 22.

GEMS, the nine, 114.

GILL, Rev. W., myths and songs of the South Pacific, 169; savage life in Polynesia, 233.

GODS in the Veda, their testimony for truth, 83; the number of, 164; river gods and goddesses, 167; made and unmade by men, 182; growth of a divine conception in the human mind, 198.

GOLDEN RULE, the, 92.

GOETHE'S West-oestlicher Divan, 22.

GOKULAJI, the model native statesman, 271.

GRASSMAN, translation of Sanskrit words, 183.

GREEK alphabet, age of, 221.

GREEK literature, its study and use, 23; when first written, 222.

GREEK deities, their physical origin, 129.

GREEK philosophy our model, 38.

GREEK and Latin, similarity between, 40.

GRIMM, identification of Parganya and Perun, 210.

GROWTH of ancient religions, 128.

GRUNAU on old Prussian gods, 210.

GUIDE-BOOKS, Greek, 223.

GYMNOSOPHISTS, Indian, 123.

H.

HARDY, his Manual of Buddhism, 97.

HASTINGS, Warren, and the Darics, 216; opinion of Hindu character, 79.

HEBREW religion, foreign influences in, 145.

HEBER, Bishop, opinion of the Hindus, 79.

HEAVEN and Earth, 169; Maori legend of, 173; Vedic legends of, 175; Greek legends of, 176; epithets for, in Veda, 178; as seen by Vedic poets, 178.

HENOTHEISM, 166.

HERODOTUS, 223.

HINDUS, truthful character of, 52; the charge of their untruthfulness refuted, 53; origin of the charge, 54; different races and characteristics of, 55; testimony of trustworthy witnesses, 55; their litigiousness, 60; their treatment by Mohammedan conquerors, 72; reason for unfavorable opinion of, 76; their commercial honor, 82; their real character transcendent, 126; their religion, 127; sacrifices and priestly rites, 148; knowledge of astronomy, 153; first acquainted with an alphabet, 224.

HINDUSTANI, 95.

HIRANYAGHARBA, 164.

HISTORY, its object and study, 34; its true sense, 44.

HITOPADESA, fables of, 110.

HOTTENTOT river names, 188.

HOMERIC HYMNS, 140; heaven and earth in the, 176.

HUMAN Mind, study of, India important for, 33.

HUMBOLDT Alexander von, on Kalidasa, 110.

HYDASPES, 192.

HYDRAOTIS, or Hyarotis, 191.

HYPASIS, or Hyphasis, 191.