M[=a]ra, 304, 346.

  m[=a]rj[=a]ra ny[=a]ya, 501.

  marka[t.]a ny[=a]ya, 501.

  marriage-rites, 270, 421, 533.

  marriage-tree, 541.

  Maruts, 8, 56, 97 ff.

  Mather, Cotton, 565.

  matriarchy, 441, 541.

  matter (see prak[r.]ti), 400.

  M[=a]y[=a], see illusion.

  May-day, 453.

  meat-eating (see ahi[.m]s[=a]), 365, 368.

  medh[=a], 452.

  Megasthenes, 1, 458 ff.

  Menandros, 545.

  merias, 529.

  metals, 35.

  metempsychosis, 175, 199, 204, 286, 302, 347,
    364, 401, 532, 533, 559;
    in the Veda, 145, 432, 530.

  methods of interpretation, 8, 12 ff., 22, 551.

  Mihira, see Mithra.

  Milinda, 545.

  M[=i]m[=a][.m]s[=a], 495.

  miracles, 430.

  missionaries, 566 ff.

  Mitra (see Varu[n.]a), 41, 44, 57, 60, 71, 138;
    mitra, mihira, 423, 544.

  Mohammedans, 436 ff., 482, 509, 524, 546 ff.

  monks (see ascetic, bhik[s.]u, Sanny[=a]sin), 285, 324;
    monasticism, 502, 557.

  monkey (see Hanuman), 448, 452, 502, 547;
    monkey-doctrine, 500.

  monolith, worship of, 538.

  monotheism, 11, 13, 67, 70, 139, 172, 413, 414,
    427, 432, 442, 481, 483, 509, 547.

  monsoon, 35.

  moon (see eschalology, Gandharva, Soma), 185,
    470, 480, 526, 533.

  morals (see commandments, sin), 14, 143, 180,
    203, 353, 375, 401, 443, 553, 570.

  mother-divinities, 415, 492;
    motherhoods, 534.

  mountains, divine, 137, 359, 416, 461, 463, 528, 532, 537.

  mouse, 532.

  Mozoomdar, 519.

  muni, 148, 520.

  Munroe, Major, 566.

  murder, 179, 475, 527.

  music, 443.

  M[=u][s.]ikas, 532.

  mysticism (see Yoga), 504.

  N[=a]gas (see dragon, snake), 536, 539.

  N[=a]g[=a]rjuna, 340, 343.

  Nakh[=i]s, 486.

  name of the Lord, call upon, 507.

  names, 201.

  N[=a]nak, 502, 511 ff., 547.

  N[=a][.n]gi Panthis, 514.

  Nara, N[=a]r[=a]ya[n.]a, 412, 448;
    Sv[=a]mi N[=a]raya[n.]a, 506, 514.

  Nature, 397.

  nautch, 454.

  Neo-Platonism, 558, 560.

  New Year’s festival, 449, 456.

  Niadis, 537.

  nid[=a]nas, chain of causality, 323.

  Night, 48, 76, 79.

  Nik[=a]ya, 326.

  Nimb[=a]ditya, 508.

  Nirgrantha, 283.

  Nirmalas, 513.

  Nirv[=a][n.]a, 286, 310, 319, 321 ff., 336, 346, 347, 426 ff.

  Ni[s.]ads, 440.

  non-duality, see adv[=a]ita.

  Notovitch, 546.