56-8; taught reverence, 58; inflicted capital punishment, 59; toleration of, 59-63; virtues taught by, 65; did not abdicate, 69; successors of, 71; extent of empire of, 75-82; daughter and son-in-law of, 78; said to have visited Khotan, 81;
improved Pâtaliputra, 85; autocrat and Head of Church, 92, 217; administration of, 93; personal supervision of, 97; penal laws of, 100; place in history of, 105; character of, 106; buildings of, 107; monasteries of, 109; stûpas of, 110; pillars of, 116, 125; rock inscriptions of, 126-34; cave-dwellings of, 134; arts in age of, 135-8; learning in time of, 139, scripts used by, 139; style of, 144; existing inscribed pillars of, 146; on the duties of censors, 168; on prompt dispatch of business, 172; viceroy at Taxila and Ujjain, 197; reviewed measures of his reign, 209; religous efforts within empire, 212; inscription at Rnmmindei, 221; at Lumbini Garden, 222; visited stûpas of Konâkamana, 224; cave dedications of, 225; Ceylonese legend of, 231; last days of, 245; Indian legends of 247; pilgrimage of, 252; Kunala, son of, 260.
Asokârâma, monastery, 109, 234.
Asokâvadâna, cited, 40, 41 n., 247 u, 252 n., 259 n.
Assam = Kâmnrûpa, 81.
Assyrian models, 143.
Avanti country, 2 35
Âyukta = yukata (yuta), q.v., 53n.
Babylon, death of Alexander at, 11, 72; Seleukos satrap of, 14.
Bactriana, 11.
Bairât, rock inscription at, 132, 134, 154.
Bakhira, pillar at, 117, 120.
Bakkula = Vakkula, q. v.
Bâlapandita, ascetic, 250.
Bali, defined, 222.
Balûchistzin, 15, 75, 81.
Bankioare, 16, 84, 108.
Banyan-tree or Sudâma cave, 225.
Barabar Hills, 70, 134; cave dedications in, 225.
Basâr = Vaisâli, 117.
Bas-reliefs, 137, 142.
Bats, eaten, 204.
Beef, used in ancient India, 207.
Benares, 28n., 40.
Bengal, Śaśânka, king of, 71.
Besnagar, railing at, 114; female statue at, 116;. = Vedisagiri, 235.
Bhâbrû Edict, 30 n., 32, 35, 73, 92, 126, 134, 154.
Bhadrabâhu, leader of Great Migration, 161.
Bhâga, defined, 222.
Bhandu, convert in Ceylon, 239.
Bharhut, stûfpa at, 113, 114.
Bhaṭṭiproḷu, inscription at, 140.
Bhîlsâ, 114.
Bhojas, 42, 186.
Bias, river, 75.
Bible, contrasted with Asoka's teaching, 33.
Bibliographical note, 227.
Bimbisâra, king, 247.
Bindusâra, king, 18-20, 72, 80, 105, 232, 247, 248.
Births and deaths, register of, 87.
Bôdh Gaya, bodhi tree at, 40; railing at, 114.
Bôdh Gaye, or 'supreme knowledge', 176.
Bodhi (bo), tree, 71, 114, 239, 245.
Bodoahprâ, king of Burma, 39 n.
Borderers' Edict, 32 n., 191.
Bow, Indian, 103, 104 n.
Brahmugiri, rock inscription at, 132, 139, 152.
Bruhmanical law, 29.
