bigotry, 445.

  bila, 12.

  bilva, see bel.

  bird (of the sky) 45, 49, 113, 124, 140, 164;
    birds as spirits, 432.

  birth-impurity, 541.

  Birth-stories, see J[=a]takas.

  birth-tree, 540.

  Blavatskyism, 562.

  Blessed One, 19, 388 ff.

  blood-money, 162.

  blood-revenge, 375.

  bloodless sacrifice (see ahi[.m]s[=a], Thugs),
    528.

  boar, 404, 407, 445.

  Bodhisat, bodhisattva, 303, 564.

  Bhodhi-tree, bo-tree, Bodhi Gay[=a], 304, 308,
    540.

  boundary-god, 529.

  brahma, 156, 178, 195, 217, 220 ff., 231 ff.,
    381, 389, 393 ff., 398, 403, 419, 420, 474,
    496, 518.

  Brahm[=a], 195, 218, 332, 346, 372, 403 ff.,
    407, 412, 421, 446, 451, 458 ff.,
    464 ff., 487, 492, 499, 518, 534.

  Br[=a]hma Dharma, 517.

  Brahmaloka, 256.

  Brahmamaha, 371, 411.

  Br[=a]hma[n.]as, 4, 5, C^ 22, 23, 174, 219, 502.

  Brahmanism, 24, 176 ff., 548.

  Br[=a]hma Sam[=a]j, 516;
    of India, 519.

  Bahmasamprad[=a]yins, 509.

  brahmodya, 383.

  branding, 440, 447.

  B[r.]haspati, 54 (Lord of Strength), 101, 136,
  159, 379, 386.

  B[=r.]hat Sa[.m]hit[=a], 438.

  brothers, 370.

  Buddha, 258, 280, 303 ff., 426;
    precedent Buddhas, 309, 523, 557;
    avatar of Vishnu, 469, 500;
    brother of Civa, 478.

  Buddhagho[s.]a, 327, 343.

  Buddhism, 4, 5, 6, 7, 26, 225, 298 ff., 310,
    401, 448;
    Northern and Southern, 326, 327, 341;
    esoteric, 320, 334;
    epic, 423 ff.;
    Civaite, 485, 486;
    morals of, 554, 556;
    Occidental, 563;
    lesson of, 564.

  Budo Gosain, 533.

  buffalo (see cow-bells), 445, 531, 537.

  bull, 407, 445, 528, 534.

  bull-roarer, 204, 553.

  burial, 60, 271, 364, 528, 534, 571.

  buttoat, 493.

  Calvinism, 501.

  Candragupta, 311, 434.

  Candracekhara, 470.

  cara[n.]a, 255.

  C[=a]ra[n.]as, 367.

  Caran D[=a]s[=i]s, 506.

  Cardinals, 557.

  Carnival, 455.

  C[=a]rv[=a]ka, 298, 374, 448.

  castes, 27, 28, 29, 40, 141, 226, 263, 426,
    507, 571;
    duties and occupations of, 549.

  cat, holy, 547.

  cat-doctrine, 500.

  cataclysms, 259, 260.

  cattle (see cow), 50, 462 ff., 450.

  caturm[=u]rti, 413.

  caturthi, 451.

  caturvy[=u]ha, 442.

  celibates (see monks), 537.

  Ceylon, Buddhism of, 341.

  C[=a]itanya, 503.

  chandas, 142, 174, 477.