RITA, the third Beyond, 263. RIVERS, as deities, 182; hymn to, 183; names of, in India, 185. RIVER systems of Upper India, 188. ROBERTSON'S Historical Disquisitions, 60. RU, the sky-supporter, 170; his bones, 171; why pumice-stone, 173. RÜCKERT'S Weisheit der Brahmanen, 22. RUDRA, the howler, 199. S. S, pronounced as h, in Iranic languages, 189. SACRIFICES, priestly, 148; daily and monthly, 248. SAKAS, invasion of the, 104. SAKUNTALÂ, her appeal to conscience, 90. SANSKRIT language, its study differently appreciated, 21; use of studying, 23; its supreme importance, 39; its antiquity, 40; its family relations, 40; its study ridiculed, 45; its linguistic influence, 46; its moral influence, 47; a dead language, 96; early dialects of, 96; still influential, 97; scholars' use of, 98; journals in, 96; all living languages in India draw their life from, 100. SANSKRIT literature, human interest of, 95; the literature of India, 99; manuscripts existing, 102; divisions of, 104; character of the ancient and the modern, 107; known in Persia, 113; a new start in, 115; its study very profitable, 275. SATAPATHA Brâhmana, 91. SCHOPENHAUER, on the Upanishads, 273. SEASONS, how regulated, 148. SELF-KNOWLEDGE, the highest goal of the Veda, 125. SINDHU, the Indus river, 183; address to, 184; meaning of, 189. SLEEMAN, Colonel, his rambles and recollections, 60; his life in village communities, 63; his opinion of Hindus, 67. SOLAR myths, 216. SOLOMON'S judgment compared, 29. SPENCER, Herbert, on ancestor worship, 239; his misstatement corrected, 240. SRÂDDHAS, or Love Feasts, 248; to the departed, 254; their source, 257; their number, 258; striking resemblance, 261. SUDÂS, 200. SUN, the central thought in Aryan mythology, 216. SÛRYA, god of the sun, 168. T. TAMIL, 95. TANE-MAHUTA, forest-god, 174. TÂRÂS, the stars, 151. TERRESTRIAL gods, 169. TEUTONIC mythology, 166. THEOGONY, 235. THÔRR, 166. THREE beyonds, 220. THSIN dynasty, 152. THUGS, 63. TORTOISE, the story of the, 154. TOWERS of Silence, 22. TOWNS, names of, in India, 189. TROY, siege of, 172. TRUTH, root meaning in Sanskrit, 82. TRUTHFULNESS, a luxury, 91. TURANIAN invasion, 104. TWO women and child, story of, 29. TŶR and Tin, 213. U. UGVIS, Lithuanian, 41. UNIVERSITIES, the object of their teaching, 19. UNTRUTHFULNESS of the Hindus, 53. UPANISHADS, 267; their beauty, 273. URANOS and Varuna, 201. URVASI, 110. USHAS and Eos, 202. UTTARAPAKSHA, 136. V. VAGA, 183; as plural, 184. VAISVADEVA, offering, 249. VAISYA, a, 162. VAK, wife of Vata, 165. VÂLMÎKI, the poet, 100. VARÂHAMIHARA, 112. VARUNA, 156; hymns to, 204. VASISHTHA, on righteousness, 93. VATA, the wind, 200; and Wotan, 201.