Mackenzie, Donald Alexander: Indian myth and legend: with illustrations by Warwick Goble and numerous monochrome plates (London, 1913)

462 * INDIAN MYTH AND LEGEND

Wife hunters, 60.

Wife of Anion, 366.

" Wild Huntsman ", the Indian, 26.

Williams, Sir M. Monier, 40, 40 n, 41,
42, 42 n.

Wilson, Vedic hymns, 13, 16, 105 n.

Winckler, Professor Hugo, reading of
Indra inscription, xxxi.

Wind, as "air of life", 37.

Wind god, Bhima and Hanuman sons
of, 106. See Vayu.

Winter burial customs among Buriats,
xxxiv.

Wisdom, goddess of, Uma as, 150.

Wives, burning of as punishment in
Egypt and Scotland, xxxvii; marriage
by capture of, 60.

Wolves, Rakshasas ride in battle, 419.

Wonder smiths, Teutonic myth of and
Indian, 11, 12.

Works and Days, Hesiod's doctrine of
world's ages in, 109 et sea.

World's ages, doctrine of the, post-
Vedic conception of, 103; Greek
evidence regarding Indian doctrine,
122; not in Teutonic mythology, 103;
Tuan Mac Carell Irish legend, in
et sea.; the "day" and "night" of
Brahma, 105; the four Yugas, 104;
the "white", "red", "yellow",
and "black" in India, 108; Hanu-
man's account of to Bhima, 107, 108,
109; Markandeya's account of, 112
et sea.; Narayana's account of, it5;
Narayana at dawn of each Yuga, 124;
Manu's association with Brahma, 140.
See Ages of the Universe.

World giant. See Purusha and Ptah.

World guardians, the four gods in Nala
story, 332.

World horse, myth of, 94 et seq.

World house of Vedic myth, 10.

World mother, Lakshmi as, 149.

World Serpent, Karoktaka as, 65;
Vishnu sleeps on, 124; Balarama an
incarnation of, 128; issues from his
mouth, 323.

World Soul, hermits and Yoga, 82;
pantheistic conception of, 88; in
Purusha myth, 95; in Rigveda hymn,
97, 98; the "subtile essence" is the
Self, 99; the soul's being, 99, 100;
Brahma, the divine incarnation of,
100; colours of in various Yugas
(ages), io8,- 109; Greek and Celtic
conceptions, no et seq.; men's souls

merged in, 118; Vishnu and Shiva
incarnations of, 122; Buddha's teach-
ing regarding, 130 et seq.

World tree, in Indra creation myth, 102;
as Brahma's, 102.

Worlds, the three, 65.

Xerxes, Gandarians who fought with
against the Greeks, 168 n.

Yadavas, Krishna prince of, 215; end

of power of, 323.
Yajurveda (ya-joor'veda), exposure of
female children in, 60; the civiliza-
tion of, 84; the schools of thought in
period of, 88; Vishnu in, 123; Maha-
deva in, 146.

Yakshas (yak'shas), " the good people",
68; invisible sentinels, 106; none in
world's first age, 107; changes sex
with princess, 171; Kuvera king of,
258; Dharma as one of the unseen,
264, 265.

Yama (ya'ma), god of the dead, as the
"first man", xxxii; in Nala story,
31; burial customs, 38; discoverer of
"the path of the fathers", 39, 40;
bis sister Yami and Persian parallel,
40; in "land of the fathers" (Para-
dise) with Varuna, 41; Babylonian
aspect of, 41; as Judge, Lord, Fin-
isher, Leveller, &c, 42; as instru-
ment of destiny, 42 et seq.; in story
of Ruru, 43, 44; in story of Savitri,
44; concessions won from, 50 et seq.;
the heaven of described, 57; parents
only admitted to heaven of, 59; jour-
ney of to "land of fathers", 116;
vision of in Dwaraka, 322; as suitor
of Damayanti, 332 et seq.

Yami, sister of Yama, 40; Babylonian
aspect of, 41;

Yavanas, the, allies of Kauravas, 287;
identified with Greeks, 287 n.

Years, the Divine, length of, 104, i°5-
See World's ages.

Yellow age, the Dwapara Yuga, 108,
109; in Greek mythology, 109, no;
in Celtic mythology, 110 et seq.

Yima, the Persian Yama, 40.

Yimeh, the Persian Yami, 40.

Ymer, the Teutonic chaos giant, Purusha
like, 90.

Yoga, religious state called, 82.

Yorkshire, burial rites in, xxxvii.

Yudhishthira(yoo-dish'thi-ra),xlviii: s01!