Subject Index

B, Bh, and M

• Bühler — 96
• Bodhicitta (awakening mind) — 44, 48, 50
• Bodhisattva — 65
• Buddhist philosophy — 40
• Buddhist Vajrayana — 61
• Buddhist Sahajiyā tradition — 37, 38, 71, 118
• Buddhist practitioner — 67
• Brahma-dhāma (abode of Brahman) — 25
• Brahma Purāṇa — 101
• Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa — 29, 106
• Brahma-bhakti (devotion to Brahman) — 18
• Brahma-santantra — 12
• Brahma Saṃhitā — 22, 157
• Brahmāṇḍa (cosmic egg) — 55
• Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa — 145
• Bhaktamāla — 135, 136
• Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu — 22, 80
• Bhakti-sandarbha — 7
• Bhaktyāveśa (possession or absorption by devotion) — 89
• Bhagavad-ākarṣiṇī (that which attracts the Lord) — 15
• Bhagavad-guṇa-darpaṇa — 137
• Bharadvāja Saṃhitā — 100
• Bhavabhuti — 60, 61, 168
• Bhramara-dūta — 185
• Bhandarkar — 97, 102
• Bhāgavata — 72, 106
• Bhāgavata-dharma — 101
• Bhāgavatāmṛta-karṇikā — 93
• Bhāva-cūḍāmaṇi — 6
• Bhāva-deha (devotional or contemplative body) — 10, 11, 85, 86, 87
• Bhāva-mārga (path of devotional feeling) — 86
• Bhāva-yoga — 79
• Bhāva-sādhanā (discipline of devotional feeling) — 87
• Bhūṣuṇḍi Rāmāyaṇa — 145, 166
• Mañjarī-deha (the contemplative body of a mañjarī) — 10
• Mañjula Rāmāyaṇa — 166
• Manjushri — 38
• Mantra-japa (repetition of a mantra) — 55
• Mantra-tanu (body constituted of mantra) — 53
• Mantra-naya (mantra system) — 40
• Mantrayāna — 40
• Mantra-yoga — 52
• Mantra Rāmāyaṇa — 102
• Mantra-sādhanā — 85
• Manthara — 170
• Mati (understanding) — 28
• Matsyendra Nath — 49, 56
• Matsyodara Kaula — 56
• Madhuradas Ji — 130
• Mada (intoxication or pride) — 29
• Madana (Love) — 61, 62
• Madhura-bhāva (the sweet or amorous devotional disposition) — 48, 53, 135, 136
• Madhura-rasa (sweet or amorous devotional rasa) — 22, 23, 26, 68, 136, 137
• Madhuracharya — 137, 139, 163, 171, 173, 175, 176, 179
• Mathurā-rati — 16, 21, 22, 23
• Madhu-sneha (“honey-like” affection) — 17, 31
• Madhyā-nāyikā (the heroine of intermediate maturity) — 25
• Madhva — 6
• Mana-Vrindavan (Vrindavan of the mind) — 72
• Manvantara — 68, 93
• Marichi — 101
• Maryada Purushottama — 95
• Maryādāvādī dāsya-bhāva (servitude governed by reverential discipline) — 117
• Mahatkaula — 56
• Mahat-tattva (the great principle) — 90, 93
• Mahākavi Hanuman — 166
• Mahākāraṇa-deha (great causal body) — 85
• Mahātārā — 40
• Mahānāṭaka — 167
• Mahābhāgavata — 101, 102, 103
• Mahābhāva (the highest state of devotional love) — 16, 18, 20
• Mahāmaru Giri — 66