The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c3.16

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The index has been made by Mr E. J. Thomas of Emmanuel College and the University Library. Modern place-names are, with very few exceptions, given as they appear in the index-volume of the *Imperial Gazetteer of India*. For the spelling of ancient names the system adopted by Prof. Macdonell in his *History of Sanskrit Literature* has been followed. This system has the double advantage of being strictly accurate and, at the same time, of offering as few difficulties as possible for readers who are not orientalists. The vowels should be pronounced as in Italian, with the exception of *a* which has the indefinite sound so common in English, e.g. in the word *organ*. The vowels *e* and *o* are always long in Sanskrit, and are therefore only marked as such in the non-Sanskritic names of Southern India, in which it is necessary to distinguish them from the corresponding short vowels.