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Sapta Tathagata +

The chief seven ''Nirmânakâyas '' among the numberless ancient world‐guardians. Their names are inscribed on a heptagonal pillar kept in a secret chamber in almost all Buddhist temples in China and Tibet. The Orientalists are wrong in thinking that these are “the seven Buddhist substitutes for the Rishis of the Brahmans.” (See “Tathâgata‐gupta”). [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Saptadwipa +

The seven sacred islands or “continents” in the ''Purânas''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Saptaloka +

The seven higher regions, beginning from the earth upwards. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Saptaparna +

The “sevenfold”. A plant which gave its name to a famous cave, a ''Vihâra'', in Râjâgriha, now near Buddhagaya, where the Lord Buddha used to meditate and teach his Arhats, and where after his death the first Synod was held. This cave had seven chambers, whence the name. In Esotericism ''Saptaparna'' is the symbol of the “seven fold Man‐Plant”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Saptarshi +

The seven Rishis. As stars they are the constellation of ‘the Great Bear, and called as such the ''Riksha ''and ''Chitrasikhandinas,'' bright‐crested. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sar +

Or Saros (''Chald''.). A Chaldean god from whose name, represented by a circular horizon, the Greeks borrowed their word ''Saros'', the cycle. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sarama +

In the ''Vedas'', the dog of Indra and mother of the two dogs called ''Sârameyas. Saramâ'' is the “divine watchman” of the god and the same as he who watched “over the golden flock of stars and solar rays”; the same as Mercury, the planet, and the Greek Hermes, called ''Sârameyas''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Saran, Ganga +

President of the Gorakhpur Sarw-Hitakari Theosophical Society in 1883. +

Saraph +

A flying serpent. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sarasavisandaresa +

Organ of the Ceylon Buddhists (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.9)#462|9:462]][[SMW::on]]). +

Sarasvati +

The same as Vâch, wife and daughter of Brahmâ produced from one of the two halves of his body. She is the goddess of speech and of sacred or esoteric knowledge and wisdom. Also called ''Sri''. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sarcophagus +

A stone tomb, a receptacle for the dead; ''sarc ''= flesh, and ''phagein ''= to eat. ''Lapis'' ''assius,'' the stone of which the sarcophagi were made, is found in Lycia, and has the property of consuming the bodies in a very few weeks. In Egypt sarcophagi were made of various other stones, of black basalt, red granite, alabaster and other materials, as they served only as outward receptacles for the wooden coffins containing the mummies. The epitaphs on some of them are as remarkable as they are highly ethical, and no Christian could wish for anything better. One epitaph, dating thousands of years before the year one of our modern era, reads : — “ I have given water to him who was thirsty, and clothing to him who was naked. I have done harm to no man.” Another: “I have done actions desired by men and those which are commanded by the gods”. The beauty of some of these tombs may be judged by the alabaster sarcophagus of Oimenephthah I., at Sir John Soane’s Museum, Lincoln’s Inn. “It was cut out of a single block of fine alabaster stone, and is 9 ft. 4 in.. long, by 22 to 24 in. in width, and 27 to 32 in. in height. . . . Engraved dots, etc., outside were once filled with blue copper to represent the heavens. To attempt a description of the wonderful figures inside and out is beyond the scope of this work. Much of our knowledge of the mythology of the people is derived from this precious monument, with its hundreds of figures to illustrate the last judgment, and the life beyond the grave. Gods, men, serpents, symbolical animals and plants are there most beautifully carved.” (''Funeral Rites of the Egyptians.'') [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sardou, Victorien +

French playwright, elected to the Académie française in 1877; author of ''Fédora'', ''Théodora'' and ''La Tosca''. +

Sargent, Epes +

American poet, playwright, editor and writer on Spiritualism. He was acquainted with Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. American author, editor and lecturer (1813-1880), known for plays, poetry, novels and widely used schoolbooks. He wrote on Spiritualism in ''The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism'', ''Planchette'' and ''The Proof Palpable of Immortality'', and donated educational books to the Theosophical school at Galle, Ceylon. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.3)#528|3:528-530]][[SMW::on]]). The bibliography cites ''The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism'', including editions of 1881 and 1891. (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.4)#664|4:664]][[SMW::on]]). +

Sargon +

A Babylonian king. The story is now found to have been the original of Moses and the ark of bulrushes in the Nile. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sarira +

Envelope or body. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sarisripa +

Serpents, crawling insects, reptiles, “the infinitesimally small”. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sarku +

Lit., the light race; that of the gods in contradistinction to the dark race called ''zahmat'' ''gagnadi'', or the race that fell, i.e., mortal men. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Sarma, Khirod +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol4|vol. 4]] (1882–1883). +

Sarpas +

Serpents, whose king was Sesha, the serpent, or rather an aspect of Vishnu, who reigned in Pâtâla. [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +