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Dravida, kingdom of, visited by Hiouen- | Funeral ceremonies on the death of
Thsang, 280.

Dravidians, 12; include the Telugu,

Tamil, Kanarese, and Malayalam peo-
ple, 13; their religion, 14, note; wor-
ship of the serpent, 58; collision with
the Aryans, 59; political organization,
ib., 386, 387.

Drona, the preceptor of the Pándavas
and Kauravas, 32.

Duhsásana, character of, 33.

Maharaja Dasaratha, 48.

Gambling, the vice of the Kshatriyas,
36; wives lost, 38.

Gandhára, visited by Hiouen-Thsang,
268.

Gandharí, wife of Dhritarashtra and
mother of the Kauravas, 31; her as
sumed blindness, 32; her death, 40.
Gandharva marriage, 316.
Ghosts, propitiation of, 26.

Durga, human sacrifices to, 269, 321; Goa. See Portuguese India.
conception of, 364.

Durvásas, the irascible sage, 317.
Duryodhana, the eldest Kaurava, his
character, 32; insults Draupadí, 38;
slain by Bhima, 39.

Dushyanta, Raja, the hero of the drama
of Sakúntalá, 313.

Duties of the affections expressed in the
edicts of Asoka, 215.

Edicts of Priyadarsi. See Asoka.
Egypt, frequently compared with India,
192.

Endowments, Buddhist, 253.

English, early kingdoms compared with
those of the Rajpoots, 352.
English, their early settlements in India,
357.

Epics. See Hindú, Mahá Bhárata, and
Rámáyana.

Eudemos, appointed to succeed Philip
as Greek governor of Taxila, 174;
murdered Porus, 175; expelled from
India by Sandrokottos, ib.
Expiation, festival of, at Kartchou, 249;
at Prayága, 275; confession and alms-
giving, ib.

Fah-Hian, the Chinese pilgrim, his
march from China to India, 243; jour-
ney through the great desert of Gobi,
244; Tartars, ib.; great and little
Vehicles, 245; his religious details,
246; halt in Khotan, ib.; witnesses
the processions of images, 247; pre-
sent at the quinquennial expiation at
Kartchou, 249; crosses the Pamir
steppe and Hindú Kúsh, ib.; worship
of relics in Udyána and the Swat
country, 250; religious character of
his travels, 251; Buddhism in the
Punjab, 252; Brahmanical pale, ib. ;
mildness of Buddhist administration
in the Middle Country, 253; Kanouj
and Kosala, 254; pilgrimages to holy
places, 255; city of Patali-putra, ib.;
his superior philanthropy, 258; return
to China, 259; perilous voyage, ib.

note.

Faria y Sousa, his general account of
India in the seventeenth century, 399;
description of Guzerat, 420; region be-
tween Guzerat and Malabar, 421; de-
scription of Malabar, 422; social cus-
toms of the Malabar people, 424;
sacrifices, 425; religious bathings, 426;
shrine of St Thomas, 428; history of
the Portuguese in India, 403, et seq.
Fitch, Ralph, his travels through Hin-
dustan, 394.

Gobi, great desert of, march of the
Chinese pilgrims through, 244.
Gonzales, Sebastian, tragical adventures
of, 452.

Gótama Buddha. See Buddha.
Government, councils at Ayodhya, 43;
political life in Ayodhya, 48; Hindú
constitution: village communities, 59;
village officials and artisans, 62; groups
of villages formed into provinces, 63;
internal administration of the Gan-
getic kingdom, 193; inspectors, ib.;
system of espionage, 191; surveil-
lance of trade and manufactures, 195;
duties of the six divisions of city in-
spectors, ib.; collective duties of city
inspectors, 196; army inspectors, ib.;
district inspectors, 197; officers of
state, 198; administration compared
with that of Burma, ib.; adapted to
the Hindú population, 199; mildness
of Buddhist administration in the
Madya-desa, 253 262; trial by ordeal,
262; public revenue, 263; public ex-
penditure, ib.; distribution of India
into petty kingdoms, ib.; the village,
the kingdom, and the empire, 265;
political and religious almsgiving at
Prayaga, 277; political system of the
Rajpoots, 351; comparison between
the Rajpoots and Teutons, 352.
Greek India, 153; surface observations
of the Greeks, 166; accounts of Me-
gasthenes, 178. See India, Greek and
Roman.

Gupta kings of Magadha, 240.
Guzerat, visited by Hiouen-Thsang, 281;
described by Marco Polo, 393; de-
scribed by Faria y Sousa, 420; Sultan
of, appeals to Turkey for help against
the Portuguese, 430; murder of the
Sultan, 431.

Hamir, Rana of Chittore, deprived of
his capital, 336; inveigled into a
widow marriage by Maldeo of Jhalore,
337; his vow for himself and success-
ors, 338.
Hanuman, the monkey chieftain, helps
Ráma to recover Sítá, 375.
Happiness, field of, cultivation at Pra-
yága, 275.
Harshavardhana, king of Kanouj,
identical with Síláditya, 268.
Hastinápur, old domestic life at, 29;
capital of Raja Dushyanta, 317.
Herakles, the Greek deity, identified
with Vishnu, 68, 365; legend respect-
ing his daughter Pandæa, 206, note.

Hindú drama. See Drama.
Hindú epics, their Brahmanical cha-
racter, 5; absence of chronology, 6;
elements of religious belief, 7.
Hindú era, 1; four elements in the
Vedic, the Brahmanic, the Buddhist,
and the Brahmanical revival, 2.
Hindú Kúsh, its crags and precipices, 250.
Hindustan, or northern India, 7;
watered by the Ganges and Jumna,
53; strategic importance of Prayága,
or Allahabad, 54; civilization of, dif-
ferent from that in the Punjab, 184;
traversed by Mr Fitch in the sixteenth
century, 395.

Hiouen-Thsang, the Chinese pilgrim,
travels of, 259; his liberality, ib.;
description of Indian towns, 260;
contrast between ancient and modern
Hindús, 261; mild administration of
justice, 262; his personal adventures,
267; encounter with river pirates,
268; finds the holy places of Bud-
dhism surrounded by Brahmanism,
269; invited to the Sangháráma of
Nálanda, 270; description of the
Buddhist university, 271; studies in
Buddhism and Brahmanism, 272;
engages in a public disputation with
a Bráhman, 273; great disputation
at Kanouj, ib.; defeats the followers
of the little Vehicle, ib.; attends the
festival of expiation at Prayága,
275; route from Nálanda to the Bay
of Bengal, 279; route through the
Dekhan and Peninsula to Conjeve-
ram, ib.; route along the western
coast to the Indus, 280.
Hiranya-parvata, the modern Monghír,
visited by Hiouen-Thsang, 279.
Hlot-dau, the supreme council of Ava,
355.

Hospitals for men and animals, 221; at
Patali-putra, 257.

Húghli, Portuguese settlement at, 399;
destroyed by Shah Jehan, 454.
Hymn of joy, the expression of Bud-
dhism, 124.

the

Ikswáku, Raja of Kosala, tradition of
the origin of Kapila and Koli, 102.
India, three eras in the history-the
Vedic, the Mussulman, and
British, 1; geographical divisions of
India: Hindustan, the Dekhan, and
the Peninsula, 7; Aryan and Turani-
an gates, 8; products of India, 9; dif-
ferent currents of immigration, ib.;
Kolarians, or aborigines. 10; Dravi-
dians, Telugu, Tamil, Kanarese, and
Malayalam, 12; chaotic character of
its ancient history, 27; old Persian tra-
ditions, ib.; the Hindú epics, ib.;
political organization of the people re-
sembling that of the Teut ns, 59, 351;
ancient political system, 157; con-
stantly compared by the Greeks with
Egypt, 192, note; internal adminis-
tration of the Gangetic kingdom,
193; distributed into a number of
petty states, 263. ·

India, Brahmanic, retrospect of, 64.
See Brahmanical revival.
India, Buddhist. See Buddhism.
India, Greek and Roman, 153; accounts
of Megasthenes, 178; Hindú ban-
quets, 184; difference of civilization
in the Punjab and Hindustan, ib.;
ryots or cultivators, 185; traders and
artisans, ib.; army, 186; sages or
philosophers, 187; the Great As-
sembly, ib.; reign of Sandrokottos:
a transition period, 188; division of
the philosophers into Bráhmans and
Germanes (Srámans), ib.; life of the
Brahman sages, 189; dogma of the
metempsychosis, 190; doctrine of the
supreme spirit, ib.; question of self-
destruction, ib.; Greek opinions of
the Brahmans, 191; Greek opinions
of the Buddhist monks, ib.; three
extra castes described by Megasthe-
nes, 192; shepherds and hunters,
193; inspectors, ib. ; system of espion-
age, 191; surveillance of trade and
manufactures, 195; duties of the six
divisions of city inspectors, ib.; col-
lective duties of city inspectors, 196;
army inspectors, ib.; district inspect-
ors, 197; officers of state, 198; ad-
ministration of the Gangetic empire
compared with that of Burma, ib. ;
adaptation of the administration to
the Hindú population, 199; authen-
ticity of the Greek pictures of ancient
India, 200; review of the Greek ac-
counts of the Ryots, 201; character
of the supervision over trades and
artisans, 203; reticence of Megasthe-
nes as regards politics and religion,
201; Greek ignorance of Bengal,
205; embassy of Pandion or Porus to
Augustus Caesar, 206; suicide of an
Indian sage, .08.
India, Portuguese.

India.

See Portuguese

India, Vedic, retrospect of, 1.
Indra, god of the sky, 16; worshipped
at the Poongul festival, 21; a sove-
reign ruler, 22.

Indra-prastha, the modern Delhi, 27.
Indus river and its tributaries, 53; con-
founded by the Greeks with the Nile,
164.

Iswara, conception of, as Siva, 362.
Jains, description of. 361; associated
with the little Vehicle, ib.

Janaka, Raja of Mithilá, gives his
daughter Sítá in marriage to Ráma,
42.

Jangam, sect of, 365.

Jarasandha, king of Magadha, father-
in-law of Kansa, 377, 380.
Jeimal, youngest son of Raemul, his
death, 344.

Jesuits, labours of, in India, 446.
Jeypore, kingdom of, 327.
Jhelum, river, passage of, by Alexander,
161; defeat of Porus, 162; formation
of a Macedoni n fleet, 163.
Johur, rite of, 335, 348.

Justice, trials by ordeal, 262; mild ad-
ministration under Buddhism, ib.;
court of, represented in the drama of
the "Toy-cart," 301; mild administra-
tion under Buddhism, 302.
Kaikeyí, favourite queen of Dasaratha,
and mother of Bharata, 42; her rage
at being outwitted by the first queen,
44; wheedles the Maharaja into ap-
pointing Bharata to be Yuvaraja, 45.
Kalanos, the Bráhman, his arrogance
towards Onesikritos, 171; his suicide,
172, 190, note.

Kálí, the black goddess, 364.

Kalinga, visited by Hiouen-Thsang, 280.
Kalyan, Jain kings of, 364.

Káma, the god of love, temple garden
of, 291, 321.

Káma-rúpa, the modern Assam, visited
by Hiouen-Thsang, 279.
Kanishka, Buddhist king of the Yuchi,
or Tochari Scythians, 239; monu-
ments of, 268.

Kanouj, a hot-bed of Brahmanism,
254; visited by Hiouen-1 hsang, 268;
public disputation at, between the
great and little Vehicles, 275; abduc-
tion of the princess of, by the Chohan
prince of Delhi, 330; ceremony of
sovereignty performed at, 331.
Kansa, tyrant of Mathurá, seeks to kill
the infant Krishna, 377; slain by
Krishna, 380.

Kanwa, the head of a Brahmanical
hermitage, 313, 317.

Kapila, legend of its foundation, 102;
visited by Fah- Hian, 255; by Hiouen-
Thsang, 269.

Kapisa, the modern Cabul, kingdom of,
267.

Karna, the sworn friend of Duryodhana,
33.

Kartchou, quinquennial expiation at,

249.

Kathæi, revolt against Alexander, 165;
capture of Sangala, ib. ; identified
with the Katties of Kattiawar, 173;
practise infanticide and sátí, ib.
Kauravas, sons of Dhritarashtra, 32;
their breach with the Pándavas, 34;
challenge them to a gambling-match,
37; insult Draupadí, 38; vanquished
in the great war, 39.
Kausalya, chief wife of Dasaratha, and
mother of Ráma, 42; intrigues for the
promotion of Ráma to be Yuvaraja,
44; her agony at the exile of Ráma,
46; death of Dasaratha in her apart-
ments, 48.

Kavi Chand Burdái, the celebrated
Rajpoot bard, 330.

Khotan, kingdom of, flourishing state of
Buddhism, 244; Sanghárámas at, 246;
processions of images of Buddha, 247.
Kolarians, or aborigines, general descrip-
tion of, 10; legendary references to
non-Aryan races, 56.

Koli, legend of its foundation, 102.
Konkana, visited by Hiouen-Thsang,

281; described by Marco Polo, 392.

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Kosala, a hot-bed of Brahmanism,

254.

Krishna, conception of, compared with
that of Ráma, 376; legend of his birth,
377; his boyhood, 379; his amours,
380; his victory over Kansa, ib.; mi-
gration to Guzerat, ib. ; depraved wor-
ship of, 382.

Kshatriyas, their military character, 19;
distinguished from the Rishis, ib.;
worship of Indra, 21; flesh feasts,
23; marriage customs, ib.; their pas
sion for gambling, 36; absence of
history and chronology, 52; probable
strategy in the conquest of Hindustan,
ib.

Kumára, king of Káma-rupa, 279.
Kunála, son of Asoka, legend of, 250,

note.

Kuntí, mother of the Pándavas, 31.
Kurukshetra, plain of, 39; visited by
Hiouen-Thsang, 268.

Kutchwahas of Jeypore, 328.
Lakha Rana, story of his marriage with
the Marwar princess, 339.
Lakshmí, the goddess, wife of Vishnu,
367; becomes incarnate as Sítá, 372,
374.

Lampá, or Langhán, visited by Hiouen-
Thsang, 267.

Law of the Wheel. See Nirvána.
Lingayets, sect of, 365.

Lunar race, or children of the Moon,
329; antagonism of the Solar and
Lunar races associated with the antag-
onism between Bráhman and Bud-
dhist, 330.

Madya-desa, the middle country, mild-
ness of Buddhist administration, 253.
Magadha, ancient kingdom of, 101, 147;

empire created by Ajata-satru, 138-
see Patali-putra; empire of Síláditya,
265.

Mahá Bhárata, 5; its Brahmanical
character, 6; referred to Indra-prastha,
or Delhi, 27; main tradition of, 28;
Aryan colonists amongst Nagas and
Bheels, 29; family incidents, ib.;
marriage by capture, 30; custom as
regards childless widows, 31; Raja
Pandu, the white-complexioned, ib. ;
Raja Dhritarashtra, the blind, ib.;
kinsmen and dependants, ib.; rivalry
between the Kauravas and Pandavas,
32; individual character of heroes and
heroines, ib.; migration of the Pán-
davas to old Delhi, 33; Swayamvara
of Draupadí, 34; inferior status of
Bráhmans, 35; Rajasúya, or royal
feast, 36; passion of Kshatriyas for
gambling, ib.; gambling-match, 37;
sensational scene, 38; war of the
Mahá Bhárata, 39; associated with
the worship of Krishna, 381.
Mahá-deva. See Siva.
Mahávíra, the Jain saint, 361.
Mahrattas, described by Hiuen-Thsang,
identified with the Rajpoots, 266;
their king Pulakesa, 267; country
visited by Hiouen-Thsang, 281...

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Maitreya, the Bráhman jester, in the
drama of the Toy-cart," 287.
Malabar country, visited by Hiouen-
Thsang, 280; described by Marco
Polo, 390; described by Faria y Sousa,
422.

Málatí and Mádhava, Hindú drama of,
319.

Malayaketu, Raja of the mountains, 311.
Maldeo, Rao of Jhalore, his temporary
possession of Chittore, 336; inveigles
Rana Hamir into a widow marriage,

337.
Mandanis, the Brahman, his conciliatory
behaviour to Onesikritos, 171; refuses
to attend Alexander, 172.
Mara, the tempter of Gótama Buddha
in the jungle, 119, 147.
Marco Polo, travels of, Coromandel coun-
try: character of the people, 386; five
Tamil kingdoms, 387; the Tamil kings,
388; the temple women, ib.; empori-
um at Old Kával, 389; shrine of St
Thomas near Madras, ib.; kingdom
of Telinga or Telugu, 390; Malabar
country, ib.; Travancore, 391; Cana-
nore, ib Malabar proper, ib.; Kon-
kana, 392; Guzerat, 393.
Marriage, customs of the Rishis and

Kshatriyas, 23; the Swayamvara,
24; law of capture, 30; taking a
brother's widow, 31; Swayamvara
of Draupadí, 34; polyandry, 35; mar-
riage of Ráma and Sítá, 42; resem-
blance of ancient and modern rites,
42, note; incestuous marriages of the
Sakyas, 104; customs described by
the Greeks, 167; between a Hindú
Raja and Greek princess, 178; inci-
dent of the loving wife of Charudatta,
293; her husband's amour with a
courtesan, 296; marriage of the cour-
tesan and Brahman, 306; Gandharva
marriage of Sakúntalá, 316; Hindú
drama of the "Stolen Marriage,"
319; deprecated by Buddhism, 320;
horror of widow marriages, 337, 339;
refusal of the Ranas of Udaipore to
give their daughters to the princes of
Jeypore and Marwar, 350.
Marwar, traversed by Hiouen-Thsang,
281; kingdom of, 327; story of the
Marwar princes married to Lakha
Rana, 339; royal family flock to Chit-
tore, 310; murder of the old Rao,
311.

Massaga, city of, captured by Alexander,

160.

Máthavya, the Bráhman jester in the
play of Sakúntalá, 315.

Mathura, the cradle of the worship of
Krishna, visited by Fah-Hian, 252;
visited by Hiouen-Thsang, 268.
Mayá, mother of Gútama Buddha, 104;
deified in later legend, 145.
Megasthenes, sent as ambassador to
Patali-putra by Seleuk s Nikator, 177;
furnishes pictures of old Hindú civil-
ization, 178; description of the city of
Patali-putra, 180; royal palace and

zenana, 181; reticence as regards
politics and religion, 204. See India,
Greek and Roman.
Metempsychosis, dogma of, 72; its an-
tagonism to the old theology, 74; its
profound significance, 75; a revolt
against the popular worship of the
gods, 76.

Mey war, kingdom of, the garden of Raj-
pootana, 327; Ranas of, the blue blood
of the Rajpoot aristocracy, 328.
Missionary operations of Gotama Bud-
dha, 129; of Priyadarsi or Asoka, 223
-see also Appendix II.; extension of
Buddhism into China, 244; of the
Brahmans, 401; of the Roman Catho-
lies in India, 445.

Mohammed the prophet contrasted with
Gótama Buddha, 109.

Mokul, Rana of Chittore, story of his
murder, 311.

Monkeys, assist Ráma in the recovery
of Sítá, 375; build the great bridge,
376.

Monks, Buddhist, neither priests nor
mendicants in the popular sense of the
words, 128; their admission into the
Assembly, 130; dark side of Buddhist
monasticism, 132; consent of parents
necessary to ordination, ib.; endow-
ments, 253.

Multán, visited by Hiouen-Thsang, 281.
Musulman era, 1; horrors of Mussul-
man invasion, 335.

Nága people, 15, 29; relations with the
Aryans, 36; traditions of, 56.
Nálanda, splendid Buddhist university
at, 270.

Nandas, dynasty of, represented in the
drama of the "Signet of the Minister,"
308; the cowherd, reputed father of
Krishna, 376, 378.

Narsinga, Hindú empire of, overthrown,
434.

Nikaa, city of, founded by Alexander,
163.

Nile, river, confounded by the Greeks
with the Indus, 164.

Nirvána, or annihilation, dawn of the
idea on the mind of Gótama Buddha,
107, 108; necessary preparation for,
122; the Law of the Wheel, 123; the
Hymn of Joy, 124; significant con-
trast between the term Nirvána and
that of Buddha, 149.

Nuns, Buddhist, 135, 136; intrigues of
a nun to promote a marriage, 322.
Onesi ritos, sent by Alexander to con-
verse with the naked Bráhmans, 170;
arrogance of Kalanos, 171; concilia-
tory behaviour of Mandanis, ib.
Oody Sing, Rana of Chittore, story of,
346.

Ordeal, trial by, 262.

Orissa, visited by Hiouen-Thsang, 280.
Padmavati, city of, 320.
Pálaka, Raja of Ujain, 288.
Pamir steppe, route of the Chinese pil-
grims over, 249.

Pandavas, their birth, 31; their individ-

ual character, 33; breach with the
Kauravas, ib.; Swayamvara of Drau-
padi, 34; celebrate a Rajasúya, 36;
their gambling-match with the Kau-
ravas, 37; their exile, 28; the great
war, 39; celebrate an Aswamedha, or
horse sacrifice, 40.

Pandion, his embassy to Augustus
Cæsar, 206; tradition of a Pandyan
empire, ib., note.

Pandu, the pale, the father of the Pán-
davas, 31.

Pánini, Sanskrit grammar of, studied by
Hiouen-1hsang, 273.

Parisnáth, the Jain saint, 361.

Párvatí, the goddess, conception of, 364.
Patali-putra, city of, captured by San-
drokottos, 176; described by Megas-
thenes, 180; visited by Fah-Hian,
255; processions of images of Buddha
at, 256; hospitals for animals, 257;
ruined state in the time of Hiouen-
Thsang, 270; captured by Chandra-
gupta, 311.

Peninsula India, on the south, 7; tra-
versed by Hiouen-Thsang, 279, 280.
Pertab Sing, Rana of Udaipore, the
hero of Rajpoot independence, 349;
refuses to give his daughters to the
princes of Jeypore and Marwar, 350.
Philip, lieutenant for Alexander at
Taxila, murdered by the mercenaries,
174.

Pirates, Portuguese, desolate lower
Bengal, 449; destroyed by Shaista
Khan, 456.

Pirthi Raj of Delhi, legend of, 330.
Pirthi Rai of Chittore, his feud with
his elder brother, 342; promised by
his sister's husband, 344.
Poongul festival, 21.

Portuguese India, 403; relations of the
Portuguese with the native powers,
408, et seq.; seek to open trade with
Bengal, 428; Sultan of Guzerat appeals
to Turkey for help against the Portu-
guese, 430; suspicious murder of the
Sultan of Guzerat, 431; Portuguese at
Diu besieged by the Turks, 1538, 432;
sudden departure of the Turkish ex-
pedition, ib.; rejoicings in Portugal,
433; second siege of Diu: triumph of
the Viceroy, ib.; overthrow of the
Hindú empire of Narsinga, 1565, 434;
disastrous results to the Portuguese,
436; decline of the Portuguese power
in India, 1603, ib.; palmy days of Goa,
1583, 437; magnificence of Goa, ib.;
view of the city and shipping, 438;
morning at Goa, ib.; the Exchange,
439; profits of money exchanges, 440;
motley crowd at the Exchange, ib.;
Sundays and Saint days: Portuguese
ladies, 441; social condition of the
Portuguese soldiers, 442; demoraliza-
tion resulting from mixed marriages,
443; degeneracy of the female popu-
lation, 444; depraved state of morals,
445; conversions effected by the Roman
Catholic missionaries, 446; labours of

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the Jesuits, ib.; relapses into heathen-
ism, 447; establishment of an Inquisi-
tion orientalization of Portuguese
Christianity, 448; revolt of European
energy against oriental effeminacy,
ib.; Portuguese free lances, 449; lower
Bengal desolated by the pirates of
Chittagong, ib.; Portuguese outlaws
entertained by the king of Arakan,
450; piratical and slave-stealing expe-
ditions, 451; weakness of the Mcgul
governors, ib.; adventures of Se-
bastian Gonzales, 452; tragical end of
Gonzales, 453; Fra Joan, ib.; Portu-
guese settlement at Húghly: slave
market at Palmiras, 454; Portuguese
of Húghly reduced to slaves by Shah
Jehan, ib.; misfortunes of Shah
Shujah in Arakan, 455; revenge of
Aurangzib, 455; destruction of the
Portuguese pirates by Shaista Khan,

ib.

Porus the elder, probably suzerain of
the Punjab, 157; encampment on the
Jhelum, 161; defeated by Alexander,
162; murdered by Eudemos, 175.
Porus the younger, abandons his throne
on the approach of Alexander, 164.
Prayaga, at the junction of the Ganges
and Jurna, its strategic importance,
54; cultivation of the field of happi-
ness at, 275.

Prajapati, step-mother of Gútama Bud-
dha, 104.

Priya, daughter of 1kswáku, legend of,
102.

Priyadarsi, edicts of. See Asoka.
Pulakesa, king of the Mahrattas, de-
scribed by Hiouen-Thsang, 267.
Pundra-vardhana, the modern Burd-
wan, visited by Hiouen-Thsang, 279.
Punjab, the home of the Vedic Aryans,
52; campaign of Alexander in, 153;
plan of the campaign, 155; absence of
caste, 167; civilization different from
that of Hindustan, 184; Buddhism
flourishing there in the time of Fah-
Hian, 252.

Pythagoras, similarity between his doc-
trines and those of the Brahmans,
172.

Raemul, Rana of Chittore, story of the
feud between his sons, 342.
Rahtores of Marwar, 328; of Kanouj,
assertion of sovereignty, 331.
Rahula, son of Gútama Buddha, his
birth, 108; his admission into the
Assembly, 132, 133, note.
Rajagriha, the scene of the commence-
ment of Gótama Buddha's career as
a mendicant, 110.
Rajasúya, or royal feast, 36.
Rajpoots, traces of the Swayamvara,
24; practice of Sátí, or widow burn-
ing. 89; described by Hiouen-Thsang
as Mahrattas, 266; the old military
aristocracy of India, 326; relics of the
Vedic Kshatriyas, ib.; kingdoms of
Meywar, Marwar, and Jeypore, 327;
high descent of the Ranas of Meywar,

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