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TABLE OF CONTENTS AND INDEX OF CHIEF

TOPICS.

I. Origin of the Epic, p. 58.

II. Historical value of the Epic, p. 70.

III. A. The Social position of the Ruling Caste; the Caste in general:
divisions of the People, p. 72.

B: Royalty.

1. The King, p. 113.

2. Royal Duties, p. 115.

3. Royal Occupations, p. 125.

4. Modes of Government, p. 135.

5. Succession; choice of King; primogeniture, p. 137.

6. Royal Consecration, p. 145.

7. Assembly and Council, p. 148.

8. Purohita and Priestly Power, p. 151.

9. Ambassador, p. 162.

10. Social Relations of the King, p. 164.

11. Royal Marriage, p. 167.

12. Royal Burial, p. 170.

13. The Imperial City, p. 174.

14. Note on Caste-exchange, p. 179.

IV. Military Position of the Ruling Caste.

1. Philosophy of War, p. 181.

2. General Fighting-force and Military Sentiment, p. 184.

3. Military Tactics, p. 191.

4. Observations on the Usages in the Field, p. 219.

5. Laws of Battle, p. 227.

6. Army-forces in Detail, p. 233.

A. The Chariot, p. 235.

The Charioteer, p. 251.

The Chariot-steeds, p. 255.

The Chariot-knight, p. 259.

B. Cavalry, p. 262.

C. Elephant-riders, p. 265.

D. Weapons, p. 269.

E. Armor and Defense, p. 303.

Remarks on Magic and Science of Weapons, p. 308.

F. Paraphernalia of Battle and Music in the Epic, p. 316, 318.
V. Appendix on the Status of Woman, p. 330.

The Girl, p. 339.

The Wife, p. 352.
The Widow, p. 370.

The chief topics will be found in the table of contents. The index contains the
minor subjects and such further elucidatory references to the primary topics as are
not indicated by the table of contents. The numbers signify pages.

Abortion, 337.

Adultery, 107, 118, 366 ff.

Dancing, 118, 121, 177, 326, 329, 334.
Deserter, slain, 189.

Age, of manhood, 110, 137, 169; of Dialects, 82.

womanhood, 341 ff.

Ages, 114.

Agriculture, 103.

Ambassador, 151 (162 ff.).

Aristocracy, 103, 135.

Army, 94, 185, 190, 196 ff., 201, 221.
åtatăyin, 187, 231.

açani, 297.

Assembly, see council.

Autonomy of towns, 136.

Beef, eaten, 120.

Drama, 112, 125, 177, 329, 334, 344.
Dress, 105, 170, 306, 317, 341, 348 ff.,
365,.369.

Drinking, 121, 177.

Election, of king, 143; of husband
or wife, 167 ff., 359 ff.

Family, origin of, 135; rule of, 139;
wife of, 354; order in battle, 193.
Farmers and traders, 74, 76, 80 ff.,
92, 94, 96, 97.

Fate, 187, 316.

Battle, appearance of, 225, 322; laws Father (see Guru), 141, 370.

of, 227.

Boasting, 233, 317.

Brihaspati, 129, 131, 165, 182, 202 ff.,
207, 219, 226.
Burial, 171, 370.

Capital punishment (see adultery,
drinking, thieves), 134, 336.
Castes, 73 ff., 80, 87, 92, 106, 168, 338.
Cattle, 80; branding of, 166.
Cavalry, 224 (262 ff.).

Charioteer, 95 (251 ff.).

Chastity, 118, 334 ff., 337.

Children, 339, 340.

Circuit of state, 131; circles of bat-

tle, 253, 284, 286.
Commander-in-chief, 100, 199, 204;
a kingly office, 215, 220, 222.
Commandments, eight or ten, 116.
Consecration (see nīrājanā), 145.
Corporations, 81 ff., 96, 184.

Fighting, as a law, 187.

Foreigners (see Kurus), 96, 98, 247,
339; Yavanas, 75, 136, 212, 295.
305.

Gamblers, 121 ff., 149.
Games, 125, 340. ·
Gāthās, 69, 327.
Genealogies, 69, 329.
Gods, 315, 316.

Guards of army, 200, 205, 221, 252,
261.

Gun-powder, 299 ff.

Gurus, 137, 142, 153 ff., 155, 161, 370;
wives of, 337.

Hair, 193, 307, 332.

Hereditary succession, 137, 183.
Horses (see cavalry and sacrifice),
color of, 91, 245, 257; 255 ff.
Hunting, 119.

itayaḥ, 83.

Council, 99 ff., 102, 130, 148, 150 ff., Judges, 102, 128, 132.

160.

Court of law, 132 ff.

Courtiers, 99, 149.

Crimes (see abortion, adultery,
murder, thieves, vices), inexpia-
ble, 94, 337.

King, 82, 95, 136; titles of, 79, 113;

origin of, 99 ff., 113 ff.; deified,
114, 153; daily life of, 129.
Kurus of the North, 75, 96.
Lamps in battle, 214.
Land-ownership, 87 ff.

Levirate, 346, 355, 367, 371.

Literature, 108, 111, 112.
Lords of realm, 99.

Love, 334; love-charm, 366.

Lying, 124, 365.

Magic (308 ff.), 312, 365 ff.

Suttee, 172 ff., 371.
svayamvara, see election.
Tacitus, 100, 113, 123, 191, 223.
Taxes, 86 ff., 89, 90, 91.

Teacher, see Guru.

Thieves, 79, 134, 136.

Mahabharata, origin of, 58 ff., 324 Towns, 77, 96, 136, 174 ff.

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Moral, laws, 104, 115 ff., 123 ff:, 231; Vices (see drinking, gambling,

responsibility, 132.

Mother, 369; brother of, 141.

Mourning, 188.

Mules in war. 259.

hunting, lying, crimes, women),
117, 339.

Victory, 115, 159, 316.

vinaya, 159.

Murder (see ātaṭāyin), 113, 336, 365. Villages (see towns), animals of,

Music, 170, 199, 318 ff.

Names, 105, 166, 364.

nīrājanā, 148, 176, 177.

Officers (see council), of king, 84 ff.,
95, 101, 128; of war, 203, 221.
Ordeals, 133.

Outcastes, 337.

Poison, 111, 178, 277.
Polyandry, polygamy, 170, 354.
People-caste, 73 ff., 79, 94.

Priests, 72, 88, 79 ff., 92, 96, 103,
150 ff., 154, 158, 172, 184 ff., 198,
248, 325, 328, 353.

Prognostications, 314.
Queens, 136, 371.

rathanida, 238.

Realm, divided, 77, 83, 127.

sabha, 148.

Sacrifice, horse, 147; human, 138.
Çalihotra, 202.

Salutation, 75, 106, 337.
Çankhalikhita rule, 155.
çataghni, 298, 300.

Sex, cause of, 335.

Slaves, 73, 97, 348, 354; of war, 107,
337; as kings, 136.

Sons, 114, 138.

Spies, 152, 184, 198, 200, 254 ff.
Suicide, 371.

çūra, 99 ff., 222, 303.

119; as gifts, 172; custom of, 364.
Vows, 233.

Vṛṣala, 168.

vyuha, 192, 195 ff., 201; door of, 225.
Warriors (see priests, slaves,

women), nobles, and common,
92, 98, 104 ff., 154, 369; deriva-
tion of name, 114, 186; study of,
108 ff.

Weapons, 176, 178; divine, 292,
296 ff., 313.
Witnesses, 132, 338.
Woman (see abortion, adultery,
chastity, dancing, dress, drink-
ing, family, games, Guru, mar-
riage, names, polygamy, queens),
purity, 331, 337 ff.; ideal, 332:
independence of, 350; obedience,
335, 378; honor to, 364; conduct,
365; guarded, 339, 349 ff., 366:
property of, 368, 371; divorce,
353, 368; eating with, 365; as a
warrior, 372; as a vice, 118; poets,
344; religion of, 352; second
wife, 353; second husband, 371;
wife's relations, 99; widows, 107,
172, 343, 370.
yantra, 178, 301.

Year, as month, 342.

Proceedings at Boston, May 6th, 1885.

THE Society was called to order in the hall of the American Academy, at twenty minutes past ten o'clock on Wednesday, May 6th, by the President, Professor W. D. Whitney, of Yale College, New Haven, Conn.

The minutes of the preceding meeting were read by the Recording Secretary, Professor Toy, and approved. The general order of proceedings was announced. Reports of the retiring officers were then presented.

The accounts of the Treasurer, Mr. Van Name, were referred to Messrs. Dickerman and John A. Paine as a Committee of Audit, and found correct. They are in brief summary as follows:

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$1,581.85

The Bradley type-fund now amounts to $994.12.

The Librarian, Mr. Van Name, reported that the Society had received from the Hon. Eugene Schuyler nine Arabic manuscripts, among them a beautifully written and illuminated manuscript of the Koran; from Mr. W. W. Rockhill a copy of the "Hundred Thousand Songs of Milaraspa," noticed in the Proceedings of the Society for October, 1884; and from the French Government the fourth volume of the Bhagavata Purāṇa in the series of the "Collection Orientale." The other accessions were chiefly the regular exchanges. The total accessions amount to nine manuscripts, forty-five printed volumes, ninety-seven parts of volumes, and fifty-three pamphlets. The present number of

titles in the Society's library is, of printed books, 4,296; and of manuscripts, 161.

For the Committee of Publication, Professor Whitney reported that the second half of volume xi. of the Journal was all in type. It contained articles on the Cypriote inscriptions of the Cesnola collection in New York, on the American Arabic Bible, on a Syriac Lectionary, and on the Greek stamps on the handles of Rhodian amphora, found in Cyprus, and now in the Metropolitan Museum of New York, by Prof. Isaac H. Hall; on the professed quotations from Manu found in the Mahabharata, by Prof. E. W. Hopkins; on the unaugmented verb-forms of the Rig- and Atharva-vedas, by Prof. John Avery; on the northern barbarians in ancient China, by President W. A. P. Martin; and on the position of the Väitäna-sutra in the literature of the Atharvaveda, by Prof. Bloomfield. There remained to be printed the account of books received and the revised list of members, and it was hoped that all would be finished and distributed to the members in a few weeks.

On behalf of the Directors, the Corresponding Secretary, Professor Lanman, announced that Professors Short and Hall and Dr. Ward had been appointed a Committee of Arrangements for the autumn meeting, and that the same would be held at Columbia College, New York, on Wednesday, October 28th, unless the Committee saw fit to change place or time. The Committee of Publication of the preceding year had been reappointed. The Directors proposed and recommended to the Society for election the following persons:

As Corporate Members

Mr. William Emmette Coleman, of San Francisco;
Mr. Adoniram Judson Eaton, of Plymouth, Mass. ;

Mr. Abraham V. W. Jackson, of Columbia College, New York;

Dr. Henry A. Todd, of Baltimore;

Rev, William C. Winslow, of Boston;

Mr. H. B. Witton, of Hamilton, Ontario.

The gentlemen thus proposed were duly elected.

The President named as a committee to nominate officers for the ensuing year the Rev. Messrs. Dickerman and George, and Prof. Elwell. These gentlemen proposed the re-election of the retiring board of officers without any changes, and their proposal was unanimously ratified by the meeting. The names are:

President, Professor W. D. Whitney, of New Haven;- VicePresidents, Rev. A. P. Peabody, of Cambridge; Professor E. E. Salisbury, of New Haven; Rev. W, H. Ward, of New York ;Recording Secretary, Professor C. H. Toy, of Cambridge;Corresponding Secretary, Professor C. R. Lanman, of Cambridge-Secretary of the Classical Section, Professor W. W. Goodwin, of Cambridge;-Treasurer and Librarian, Mr. Addison Van Name, of New Haven ;-Directors, Professor John Avery, of Brunswick, Maine; Professor Joseph H. Thayer, of

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