The Vishnu Purana: Index: O

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O.

Oblations, daily, with fire, 303.

Obsequial rites, three kinds of, 318. by whom performed, ib.

Ocean churned, 75.

Odra, a country, 192, n. 102.

Oghavatí, a river, 183.

Om, mystical and initiatory syllable; the monosyllabic Brahma; a type of the three worlds, of Brahma, of the Vedas, 1, n. 1. 273. type of Vásudeva, 274, n. 6.

Osht́ha-karńakas, a people, 187, n. 22.

Oxydracæ, the Śúdra people, 195, n. 153.