Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c15.2

c15.2

Abdalla ibn Mokaffa 179 Abhīra 11 Abyssinia (*Itiopyavan*) 19, 92 acacia tree 126 Achilles 140, 170 Actium 101 Adad-Nirari IV. 8 Aden 1, 2, 10, 17, 94, 112 Āditya 139 Adulis (= Massowa) 91, 92 Aegidii (?Angidīva or Goa) 119 Aelana (= Ezion Geber, q.v.) 90 Aelian 49, 107, 170 Aelius Gallus 104 Aemilianus 154 Afghanistan 69, 163 Africa 14, 19, 98, 99 African baobab, the 14 Agatharchides 94, 113 Agathokleia 86 Agathokles 76, 86 Agesilaus 165 aghil (*ahal*) 14 Agnimitra 81 Airrhadii 133 Ajantā 9, 146 Akaba (also called Aelana and Ezion Geber) 10 Ākāśa (ether) 61 Akesines, R. 34, 78 Akkad 16 Akkadian tongue, the 2 Alaric 102, 151 Alasanda, island of 78 Alexander the Great 16, 19, 24, 29, 33 ff., 59, 88 ff., 117, 155, 159, 160, 167 Alexander, a trader 132 Alexander Severus 154 Alexandria 15, 69, 88 ff., 95 ff., 106, 111, 130, 137, 138, 140, 141, 171, 173, 174, 178