The themes

Each head below gathers topics the harvest worded differently for the same concern. The members are not merged into it — every one keeps its own entry above — so the works count is the union, and it is what answers which books are about this.

Concerns the harvest has met only once or twice so far — the index's growing edge:

a graded taxonomy of sin · agni as priestly mediator (hotṛ/purohita) between gods and men · analogy between intellectual and material (corporeal) property · anger as a form of madness · application of areas (geometric algebra) · argument by anthology: maxim, scripture, anecdote and verse as proof · astrological and calendrical constraints on ritual performance · authority and disagreement among commentators · barbarian versus greek identity · caste (varna) as the organizing axis of law · character and past conduct as evidence of present guilt · classification of irrational lines · codification of the law of civil wrongs for british india · comparative and historical legal scholarship · conflict between royal prerogative and parliamentary privilege · contempt of death and fear · courage and the shame of cowardice in battle · debate over the best form of government · deception and stratagem in warfare · defense against slander and false accusation · dependence of legislation on public opinion · dialectical question-and-answer method · discriminative knowledge (viveka) as the means to liberation · disguise, cunning, and testing of identity · divination and divine sanction in military decisions · divine favor and intervention in mortal affairs · divine guidance and favor · divine intervention in human affairs · divine intervention in mortal combat · divine intervention in mortal warfare · divine law versus civic command · divine omens and signs · divine punishment and impiety · divinity of the holy spirit · documentary proof in athenian courts · due process before punishment · equanimity in the face of death · exile and loss of homeland · fate, mortality, and doom · fate versus human effort · feudal wardship and its abuses · freedom versus slavery · friendship and pastoral correspondence · fulfillment of oracles and prophecy · grief and lamentation · grief and mourning for the dead · grief and separation (viraha) · guest-friendship and its violation · healing and purifying power of waters · healing and remedy for bodily disease and affliction · historical attribution of mathematical discoveries · hymnic invocation and praise · illusion (māyā) and invisibility in warfare · the impermanence and transience of all things · injustice and inconsistency of roman legal procedure against christians · indifference to external opinion and fame · indra's combat with vṛtra and the release of the cosmic waters · inexorability of time and fate · ingratitude toward benefactors · inner virtue versus outward appearance · invocation of multiple deities for blessing and protection · kingship, succession, and legitimacy · living according to nature and reason · martyrdom as a second baptism · mīmāṃsā hermeneutic method applied to ritual law · nature as a guide to the highest good · neutralizing poison and venom · origin and nature of evil · penelope's grief and fidelity · persecution and exile of orthodox bishops · persecution and martyrdom of christians · philological correction of a defective transmitted text · portents and omens foretelling doom · possibility is not actuality · prayer for wealth, cattle, horses and heroic offspring · primality and coprimality · proof by contradiction (reductio ad absurdum) in geometry · proof through witnesses and documentary depositions · proper funeral rites and the treatment of the dead · purification from sin and impurity · purification of soma through the woollen filter · ratio and proportion among numbers · reciprocity and gratitude between allies · release of the deceased from a liminal 'ghost' state into ancestorhood · religious liberty and its limits · revolt of subject and allied cities from imperial powers · righteous kingship and the ideal reign · ritual purity and pollution · ṛta as cosmic and ritual order · social order and the duties of the four varṇas · supplication and the denial or granting of mercy · tension between individual liberty and state intervention · the aśvins as miraculous healers and rescuers · the aśvins as swift rescuers and healers · the climactic single combat between rāma and rāvaṇa · the instability and reversal of fortune · the instability and reversal of human fortune · the jury's right to judge the justice of the law, not merely the facts · the printed edition as a critical apparatus over a defective text · the proper limits of grief · the proper limits of state interference with individual liberty · the search for the highest good (summum bonum) · the unconstitutionality of slavery · the unity of christ and the creator against marcion's two gods · the wrath and withdrawal of achilles · vengeance and retribution · virtue as the sole good · whether pain is the highest evil · whether pleasure is good · wise counsel versus reckless valor · a conspiratorial 'malignant party' as the source of the kingdom's ills · a contract, where it exists, becomes the sole measure of the parties' duty · a curse that conceals one's true power · a damaged text and its conjectural repair · a declared war against a sovereign extends to his subjects and allies · a double standard in punishing sexual transgression between men and women · a failed proof neither refutes the claim nor establishes its contrary · a father's anguish over endangering his beloved son · a fourfold typology of kingship culminating in true kingship as rule by law · a good intention does not make the deed good · a graded hierarchy of beings, peoples and climes culminating in one person · a legal canon requires ambiguous language to be read in favor of liberty · a logic textbook built on contemporary and local examples · a mother's doubt and grief turning to uncertain hope · a name is derived from an art, not from a founder · a pattern of opportunistic and fraudulent claims surrounding nicostratus's wealth · a political conspiracy behind the prosecution, tied to an embezzlement scandal · a prescribed curriculum for the student of hadith · a private suit bearing on the public interest of the city · a proposed civil-law remedy of restitution in place of criminal or administrative regulation · a proposed natural curriculum progressing from concrete to abstract subjects · a proposed remedy: jury selection by lot free of official discretion · a recurring commentarial method of definition, division, and scope applied to each topic · a remnant marked and spared amid judgment · a single righteous hero overcoming an overwhelming army · a testator's state of mind (anger versus sound judgment) as determining a will's validity · a twofold conception of knowledge, common versus specially rational · a typology of learners and of intellectual failure · a wife's duty to accompany and share the fate of her husband · abduction and forced captivity · abduction, forced marriage, and consent · abduction of helen and violation of hospitality · abolition of episcopacy and disposal of church lands · abolition of evil administrative customs through local self-government · abolition of feudal land tenure · abolition of slavery grounded in utilitarian principle and humanitarian conscience · abolition of the high commission's coercive ecclesiastical jurisdiction · abolition of the house of lords and hereditary privilege · abolition of the monarchy · abolition of the star chamber and prerogative conciliar courts · abolition of vexatious prerogative fiscal devices · abrogation and the alignment of the legislative with the existentiating determination · absence as a real, classifiable category · absence as defense against liability · absence of a coherent church reform programme among whigs and benthamites · absence of design or providence in cosmic order · absence of motive as evidence of innocence · absolute and qualified privilege as defenses to defamation · absolute devotion and service to the guru · absolute dominion as more than mere possession or use · absolute privilege of parliamentary and judicial statements · absorption of the law merchant into the common law · abstention from wrongdoing as self-protection · abstract qualities named by analogy with sensible things · abstraction as the method that makes mathematics possible · abstraction from matter as the mark of intellect · absurdity of reincarnation and transmigration of souls · abuse and redress of the royal falconry prerogative · abuse of centralized fiscal and administrative machinery inherited from henry ii · abuse of legal procedure and false evidence · abuse of legal process for personal or political vendetta · abuse of military billeting and martial law over civilians · abuse of military command and favoritism · abuse of public office for private financial gain · abuse of royal patronage and administrative corruption under king john · abuses of episcopal church government · abusive tax collection and the protection of citizens' persons · abusive treatment of citizens in tax collection · academic skepticism and the impossibility of certain knowledge · academic skepticism versus stoic/antiochean dogmatism · acceptance as the completion of a promise's transfer of right · acceptance of death as natural · acceptance of death as natural and not an evil · acceptance of fate and adversity · acceptance of fate and the will of the whole · acceptance of fate and what befalls one · acceptance of fixed fate · acceptance of mortality and the corruptibility of all created things · acceptance of nature and fate · acceptance of nature's order and divine governance (fatalism) · acceptance of one's allotted nature and portion · acceptance of one's lot and limiting desire · acceptance of the world's laws as a condition of living in it · acceptance of what befalls / fate · acceptance of what befalls (fate and providence) · accession: ownership follows the principal thing · accessory obligation cannot exceed the principal obligation · accommodating a corrupt age rather than contending with it · accommodation and economy in transmitting truth to different audiences · accord with the king's will as the condition of service · accountability and eyewitness knowledge in military command · accountability (euthyna) of officials and generals · accountability for corrupt or impious administration · accountability for embassies, promises, and bribery · accountability of a royal favourite through impeachment · accountability of ambassadors · accountability of ambassadors versus generals · accountability of governors and oaths of office · accountability of magistrates through scrutiny and audit · accountability of political advisers and statesmen · accountability of public officers before receiving honors · accountability of the king's ministers for subverting the law · accountability of the officeholder before god and the sultan · accountability of victorious commanders to the demos · accountability without credit: the asymmetry of the vizier's liability · accumulation and plurality of offices · accumulation of legal authorities to legitimize the natural-law argument · accusation and blame for kaikeyī's boon · accusation and rebuttal between parliament and its critics · accusation and the shifting assignment of blame · and 15,684 more