INDEX
Abhidharmas, 139
Abisaros (Abhisara), an Indian king, 19
Aditya, an idol in Multan dedicated to
the sun, description of, 177
Destroyed by Jalam ibn Shaiban, 177
JEli&n, mention of suttee by, 73
Agriculture, Hindu, 151
Ahmadabad (Ahmedabad), Pietro della
Valle arrives at, 294
Description of the caravanserai in, 295
Condition of streets and roads in, 295
Description of the market-place of,
296-297
Persian the prevailing language in, 297
Description of the Great Mogul's
palace at, 297-299
Description of a small chapel near,
302, 305
Wrongs of the English at, righted by
Jahangir, 312-313
Akesines (Chinab), a river of India, 8, 18
Egyptian beans found in the, 14
Albiruni, see al-Biruni
Albuquerque, Affonso de, reaches India
in 1503, 227
Gains possession of Goa, 228-233
Issues a proclamation that the inhabi-
tants of Goa should be immune from
pillage, 229-230
Cares for the abandoned women and
children of the Turks and Rumes in
Goa, 230-231
Death of, in 1515, 227
Alexander the Great, march of, through
the East, 1
Restores his conquered Indian terri-
tories to Poros, 3
Determines to invade Egypt from
India, but abandons his plans, 14
Route of, in India, 14, 17
Crosses the Kophes and conquers the
country to the east, 17
Army of, halts exhausted, at the Hy-
panis, 18
Courteously received by King Taxiles,
18
Obtains material for shipbuilding from
the Emoda Mountains, 20
Conquers Poros, 20
Builds two cities on opposite sides of
the Hydaspes, 20
Marches to the Hypanis and returns to
the Hydaspes and sails down it, 23-
24
Makes the lands adjacent to the Indus
and its tributaries well known, 24-25
In danger of losing his life from a
wound, 25
Conquers Patalene, 25
According to Krateros, advanced to
the Ganges, 28
Aloes-wood found in the Ganges River,
293
Alphabet, Indian, 135
Ambria, sub-caste of the Sudras, 244
Animals of India, 32-38
Anjengo, description of, by William
Francklin, 317-318
Aornos, storming of the fortress of, 5
Apollodorus, author of the " History of
Parthia," 2
Aradh-iha (Seivia), a sect of the Brah-
mans, 257-258
Architecture, Hindu, 131
Arhant (an aspect of Buddha), di-
rections for constructing an idol of,
180
Arhata, a sacred pond, 191
Aristoboulos, a Greek historian, 1
On the irrigation of India, 7-8
Arkturos (Arktos), the Great Bear, 7
Army, Hindu, four divisions of a, 143
Ascetics, Hindu, description of, 137-139
Assakanos, king of Masoga, 7, 18
Astakenoi, a tribe of India, 18
Astronomical terms, divergent in San-
skrit and Chinese for the same
objects, 126
Atharva-Veda, the, studied by the Brah-
mans, 137335
