INDEX 727
Devendra, 168, 219, 503, 547, 632,
690. Dhanur-Vedu, 235. Dharmapuri, 284. Dharma-Sastras, 124, 235, 655. Diksha, or initiation, 104, 118, 695.
Dilipa, King of, 502. Dindime, 518. Diodorus, 193. Diogenes, 519. Divination. 381-2. Divorce, 211. Divuligai, feast of, 85.
Dombers or Dombarus, 74.
Domestic animals, privations of,
86-7.
Domestic quarrels, 338.
Domestic service, 52 et seq.
Dravidian country, 15, 146. Draviani-yoga, 694, 696. Drinking, rules as to, 183, 187-8. Drishti-dosha, or evil eye, 228. Druids, the, 505, 588. Dubois, Abbe J. A., life of, v-vii,
viii-xii; as a Guru, 202; his chief work, Hindu Manners, & c,
iii, v, vi, xii-xxviii; translation of the Pancha-tantra, vi, xxviii;
Letters on the State of Christian ity in India, xxv et seq., 302 n.
Du Halde, 418. Durga, 629, 632. Durgams, or fortresses, 681. Dvija, ' twice-born,' 98, 169.
Dwaita( twofold) sect, 402 et seq.,
408. Dwaraka, 627.
Earth, the, deification of, 549 et seq.
Earthenware vessels, 184.
East Indian Company, xi, xiv et seq., xxviii. Eating, care in, 183 et seq.; gluttony in, 272-3; rules about, 183- 4, 188 et seq., 245 et seq., 559- 61.
Educational systems, Hindu, 376-
8.
Egypt and the Egyptians. 31. 34, 42, 47, 101, 193, 200, 424, 505, rm, 579, 581, 589, 613 n., 631,
640, 643 n., 648.
Eka-dasi ceremony, 701 et seq. Elements, worship of the, 549 et seq.
Elephants in war, 671 et seq. Elijah, 537, 538. Elisha, 525 n. Elphinstone, M., 685 n. Enceladus, 546. Enchantments, 386. Epics, Hindu, 401, 669-70.
Epistolary style of the Hindus, 420 et seq. Erskine, Mr. W., xiv. Essenes, the, 505. Etiquette, Hindu rules of, 326 et
seq. Europeans, as administrators in India, 3, 96-7, 291, 647; Hindu contempt for, xxii, 41, 192, 194, 201, 239 n., 273, 275, 300 et seq., 610, 700; judicial system of, 662-3, 667; military science of, 669, 676, 679 et seq.; superior physique of, 320.
Evil eye, influence of the, 149-50, 228.
Evil spirits, worship of, 644-5.
Fables, Hindu, 433 et seq. Factions, Right-hand and Lefthand, 24 et seq., 60, 154 n. Fakirs, 118, 176.
Family councils, 373-4.
Fasting and fast-days, 269 et seq., 525-6, 706. Fate, Hindu conception of, 614-5. Feasts, religious, 276 et seq., 567 et seq. Females, excess of, 208 et seq. Fig-tree, the sacred, 243, 652-3. Fire, deification of, 549 et seq.; ordeal by, 717, 720. Fire-bath, the, 598. Fish-worship, 642. Flattery, Hindu love of, 168, 423-4. Flood, " the, allusions to, 100, 102, 103, 189, 199, 200-1, 531. 536;
Hindu traditions as to, 47, 98, 251-2, 416 et seq., 426,503.