| A | the recension of Kaush. published in the Ānandāśrama Sanskrit Series. |
| Ait. | Aitareya Upanishad. |
| Ait. Br. | Aitareya Brāhmaṇa. |
| AJP. | American Journal of Philology. |
| Āśv. | Āśvalāyana (Gṛihya Sūtra). |
| AV. | Atharva-Veda. |
| AVTr. | Atharva-Veda Translation, by Whitney and Lanman, in the Harvard Oriental Series, vols. 7 and 8, Cambridge, Mass., 1905. |
| B | the recension of Kaush. published in the Bibliotheca Indica. |
| BhG. | Bhagavad-Gītā. |
| BR. | Bohtlingk and Roth’s great Sanskrit Dictionary, 7 vols., St. Petersburg, 1855-1875. |
| Bṛih. | Bṛihad-Āraṇyaka Upanishad. |
| BWb. | Bohtlingk’s shorter Sanskrit Dictionary, 7 parts, St. Petersburg, 1879-1889. |
| Chānd. | Chāndogya Upanishad. |
| com. | commentator, commentators. |
| ed. | edited, edition. |
| JAOS. | Journal of the American Oriental Society. |
| K | Kāṇva recension of Bṛih. |
| Kaush. | Kaushītaki Upanishad. |
| l.c. | (loco citato), at the place cited. |
| M | Mādhyaṁdina recension of Bṛih. |
| MBh. | Mahābhārata. |
| Mahānār. | Mahānārāyaṇa Upanishad. |
| Māṇḍ. | Māṇḍūkya Upanishad. |
| MS. | Maitrāyaṇi Saṁhitā. |
| Muṇḍ. | Muṇḍaka Upanishad. |
| MW. | Monier-Williams’s Sanskrit Dictionary, 2d edition, Oxford, 1899. |
| Pār. | Pāraskara (Gṛihya Sūtra). |
| RV. | Rig-Veda. |
| Śat. Br. | Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa. |
| SBE. | Sacred Books of the East. |
| SV. | Sāma-Veda. |
| s.v. | (sub verbo), under the word. |
| Śvet. | Śvetāśvatara Upanishad. |
| TA. | Taittirīya Āraṇyaka. |
| Tait. | Taittirīya Upanishad. |
| tr. | translated, translation. |
| TS. | Taittirīya Saṁhitā. |
| VS. | Vājasaneyi Saṁhitā. |