Subject Index

M, Y, and R

• Mahayana — 38, 40
• Mahāyāna-sūtrālaṅkāra — 41
• Mahā-Rāmāyaṇa — 127, 144, 156
• Mahāvāṇī — 1
• Mahāvibhūti (great divine power or glory) — 103, 105
• Mahāvīra-carita — 169
• Mahājambū Saṃhitā — 156, 180
• Mahāśūnya (great void) — 66
• Mahāsāṃghika — 39
• Mahāsadāśiva Saṃhitā — 157
• Mahāsukha (Great Bliss) — 37, 44, 47, 48, 64, 66, 67
• Mandavi — 164
• Mātṛ-kukṣi (maternal womb) — 59
• Mādana (the highest consummation of divine love) — 31, 72, 73
• Mādhava — 29
• Mādhurya-keli-kādambinī — 171, 172
• Mādhvīka-rasa (honeyed nectar) — 111
• Māna (loving offendedness) — 16, 17, 18, 25, 31, 33
• Human beauty — 74
• Māna-śūnyatā (freedom from pride or offendedness) — 80
• Mānuṣī-tanu (human body) — 39
• Māyā-śakti — 72
• Māyika-viśva (world constituted by māyā) — 24
• Māraṇa-mohana (ritual killing and enchantment) — 42
• Mālatī-Mādhava — 61, 63, 64
• Mithuna (the divine pair) — 35
• Mithuna-yoga — 42, 47
• Mithuna-yogābhyāsa (practice of paired yoga) — 5
• Mirabai — 4, 71
• Mukhyā-rati (principal devotional love) — 20
• Mugdhā-nāyikā (the innocent young heroine) — 25, 165
• Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad — 57
• Muralī (flute) — 29
• Mūlādhāra — 21, 37, 50
• Mūlādhāra-cakra — 51
• Mṛṇāla-rati — 28, 32
• Mekhalā Yoginī — 61
• Meru Giri — 61, 66
• Maitreyanath — 43
• Mainda Rāmāyaṇa — 166
• Mekhalikā — 27
• Maithilī-haraṇa — 169
• Maithileśa — 41
• Maithilī-kalyāṇa — 169
• Maithilī Mahopaniṣad — 145
• Maitrī (loving-kindness) — 66
• Moṭṭāyita (an amorous gesture) — 30
• Modana (an exalted state of divine love) — 31
• Moha (delusion) — 29
• Mokṣa (liberation) — 69
• Moha-pāśa (snare of delusion) — 60
• Mokshakar Gupta — 40
• Mokṣa-laghutā-kṛt (that which makes liberation seem insignificant) — 15
• Maulana Rashid — 127
• Yashoda — 80
• Yugandha — 35, 45, 46
• Yugabaddha-mūrti (image of the joined Couple) — 56
• Yugala (the Divine Couple) — 35
• Yugalvinod Bihari Sharan — 144
• Yugalanand Sharan — 173, 182, 183
• Yugāvatāra (incarnation as the Divine Couple) — 90, 94
• Yuṣmad-bhāva (the “Thou” disposition) — 81
• Yūtheśvarī (leader of a company of companions) — 148
• Yoga — 59
• Yoga-sādhanā — 64
• Yoga Sūtra — 45
• Yoginī Tantra — 43
• Yauvana (youth) — 30
• Raghuvaṃśa Mahākāvya — 102
• Raghunath Das Goswami — 8, 71, 79
• Raktimā-rāga — 18, 31
• Rati (devotional love) — 3, 16, 28
• Rati-mañjarī — 39
• Rati-vilāsa-paddhati — 13
• Rasamālā — 28
• Ratna-bhavana (jewelled palace) — 29
• Rāsa-maṇḍala — 27
• Rasa — 48, 55, 110
• Rasa and rati — 72