Ascetics, Allegory relating to, ii, 82; Âryan Race, of the, ii, 650; Buddhist, i, 197; Celestial, ii, 604; Chinese, i, 197; Circle of, enchanted, i, 5; Egyptian, i, 24; Gods strive with the, ii, 184; Initiated, ii, 288; Japanese, i, 197; Race of fruitless, ii, 288; Sons of Brahmâ as, ii, 86; Sword of Knowledge of the, i, 585; Third age, of the, ii, 333. Aschmogh a huge serpent, ii, 215. Ascidians and Medusæ, ii, 126. Asclepiades on Stones, ii, 357. Asclepias Acida or soma plant, ii, 524. Asclepios (see Æsculapius), Æsculapius or, ii, 218; Apollo and, ii, 221, 813; Definitions of, i, 308, 314; Indian, the, i, 306; King and, the, i, 618; Maitreya the Indian, i, 306; quoted, i, 305. Asclepius a Demi-god, ii, 380. Ases, Creative powers, were, i, 460; Holy Gods were, ii, 104; Norse Legends, in, ii, 101; Scandinavia, of, ii, 102; War of the, ii, 403. A-sexual, Adam, the, ii, 126; Humanity originally, ii, 140; Multiplication, ii, 141; Processes of reproduction, ii, 141, 695; Reproduction, ii, 695; Second race, ii, 123; Sexless, from the, ii, 19, 122. Asgard, Gods, the habitat of the, ii, 101. _Asgard and the Gods_, quoted, i, 432, 457, 460, ii, 102, 104, 105, 296, 361, 547. Ash or Ask tree, ii, 102; Yggdrasil, ii, 547. Asha is fire, ii, 120. Ashburj or Asburj, ii, 425, 426. Asher, I am that I am, ii, 491; Libra the Balance in, i, 715. Ashoka, Cave-temples in the time of, ii, 231; Chandragupta and, ii, 580. Ashtadisha, ii, 609. Ashtar Vidyâ, ii, 445. Ashteroth or Venus, ii, 154. Ash-tree, Bronze Race from the, ii, 547; Celestial, the, ii, 548; Hesiodic, the, ii, 102; Third Race from the, ii, 191; Zeus and the, ii, 191. Ashvamedha Parvan, i, 121; Sacrifice, ii, 602. Ashvattha-tree, i, 600; Being, of, i, 437; Bodhi, the holy, of, ii, 622; Bo-tree, or, i, 570; Hindû, the, ii, 102; Life, of, i, 437, 585, ii, 676; Symbol of the, ii, 676. Ashvins, Âdityas and, ii, 640; Sacrificers and, ii, 640; Sky and Sun, twin sons of the, i, 100. Ash-wood men made by Jupiter, ii, 816.