Subject Index
V and Bṛ
- Vaṅka-nāla (crooked channel) — 51
- Vajra — 63
- Vajra-kāya (diamond body) — 48
- Vajradhara — 61, 66, 67
- Vajrayana — 38, 40, 44, 43, 64
- Vajrayoginī — 61, 63, 64, 65
- Vajrasattva — 47, 66, 67
- Vajrolī — 50, 53, 63
- Vana-Vrindavan (forest Vrindavan) — 72, 73, 155
- Vanamālā (forest-flower garland) — 28
- Vandana (obeisance) — 78
- Vayas-bhāva (disposition associated with age) — 81
- Valaya (bracelet) — 28
- Vallabha — 6
- Vallabhacharya — 107
- Vasishtha — 101, 119
- Vasiṣṭha-Arundhatī-saṃvāda — 166
- Vasiṣṭha Saṃhitā — 155
- Vaśīkaraṇa (ritual subjugation or enchantment) — 42
- Vasana (garment) — 28
- Vācaka (that which directly denotes) — 41
- Vachaspati — 48
- Vācika-anubhāva (verbal expression of emotion) — 30
- Vācya (the denoted meaning) — 26
- Banabhatta — 61
- Vātsalya (parental affection) — 16, 20, 23, 29
- Vāmācāra (left-hand ritual discipline) — 42, 60
- Vāyu Purāṇa — 102
- Varāha Purāṇa — 180
- Vāruṇīyāna — 52
- Vālmīki-gītā — 59
- Vālmīki Saṃhitā — 150
- Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa — 163, 173, 174
- Vāsaka-sajjā (the heroine who prepares for her beloved’s arrival) — 25
- Vāsa-bhāva — 81
- Vāyudeva — 91, 95
- Vicchitti (artful disorder in adornment) — 27
- Vijaya Tantra — 43
- Vijalpa — 32
- Vidyā (sacred knowledge) — 17
- Vidyapati — 71
- Videha — 42
- Vidhi-niṣedha (injunction and prohibition) — 1, 2, 177
- Viruddha-rati (incompatible love) — 41
- Bindu (mystic drop) — 51
- Vipāka-vimarśa — 47
- Vipralabdhā (the deceived heroine) — 25
- Vipralambha-visphūrti (manifestation of love-in-separation) — 31
- Vibhāva (determinant of aesthetic emotion) — 18
- Vibhūti (divine power or glory) — 89
- Viraja River — 24, 113
- Virāṭ Puruṣa (cosmic person) — 140
- Viraha (separation) — 30, 33
- Vilāpa-kusumāñjali — 8
- Vilāsa (playful delight) — 30
- Vivarta-vilāsa — 31
- Virodha (opposition) — 44
- Viśuddhi (purification) — 75
- Viśuddha-rasa (pure rasa) — 45
- Viśuddhākhya-cakra — 19
- Viśeṣaka (tilaka or forehead ornament) — 28
- Viśeṣa-rati (particularised devotional love) — 41
- Viśrambha (confident intimacy) — 18, 33
- Vishvanatha Chakravarti — 24, 38, 79
- Vishvambhara Upanishad — 128, 143
- Vishnu — 67
- Viṣṇu Purāṇa — 178
- Vīra-bhāva (heroic disposition) — 42
- Vīreśvara — 82, 91
- Bṛhat-kalyāṇa-khaṇḍa — 113, 170
- Bṛhat Gautamīya Tantra — 29