Index
Index
abhangs, 202–03, 204, 206–07, 209
Abhidhamma, 103, 104, 106
absolutism, 15, 275, 276
abstractness, 60
Acchutananda, 241
accomplishment, 96
accumulation, 70
acquisitiveness, 16, 147
action, 49, 54, 57, 58; and
consequences, 33; efficacy of,
32, 35; freedom of, 58; with
responsibility, 35; See alsokarma
actuality, 86
adhyatmavidya(religion), 141
Adi Dravida, 238
Adi Granth, 191
Adivasis, 226, 264
adultery, 35, 75, 113
Advaita, 224, 236
Aganna Suttanta, 72, 272
Agasthya, 41, 89
agency, 58
aggregates (sankhara), 61
agrarian economy, society,
agriculture, 27, 31, 111–12, 126,
128, 144, 150, 176, 182;
occupation, status declined,
46, 151
ahimsa, 161
ahura, 15
Ahura Mazda, 40
air, 37
Ajanta caves, 100, 102, 157n, 158,
171, 273
Ajatasattu (Ajatshatru), 29, 34,
71, 119
ajiva, 40
Ajivikas, 34, 36, 54
Al-Hind, 176
alchemy, 112
Alexander, 119; failed invasion of
India, 29
Amagandha sutta, 55
Ambapalli, 64, 134
Ambasthas, 45, 141
Ambattha, 78
Ambattha Suttantaof Digha
Nikaya, 41, 78
Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji, 1, 4–8, 9,
11–12, 18–19, 42, 56, 75, 126, 155,
162, 168, 211, 232, 234, 235, 239,
240, 241, 242, 243–44, 246–48,
258–63, 266, 267–68, 269, 271,
279; confrontation with Gandhi,
248; on the way to Buddhism, 257
ambiguity, 109, 113
Ambika Amman, 238
Amitabha, 109, 278
Amravati, 110, 156
Ananda, 10, 23, 63, 64, 90
anarchy, 19
anatta(non soul), 13, 59, 83, 148;
and karma/rebirth cosmology, 6
Andhra Pradesh: Shaivism, 156
Andhras, 169
Angulimala, 50
Anguttaraya Nikaya, 54
anicca, Seeimpermanence
animal slaughter, 47
anomie, 65
antagonism, 131, 255
anti-caste movement, 1, 2,
17–18, 266
anti-theistic, 53
anxiety, 65
Appadinaiyar, G., 239
apperceptions, 59
Arabs, 177, 178, 179, 182–83