Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c15.39

c15.39

Soma juice, 58 Somali coast, the 104 Somaliland 9 Son, R. 44, 45 Sona, R. (*or Hiraṇyabāhu*) 24 Sonaparānta (Aurea Regio) 133 Sopāra 119 Σωφάρα (Ophir in the Septuagint) 11 Sophir, Coptic term for Southern India 11 Sophokles 170; *Antigone* 171 Sophon 99 Soptama (*Su-patana*) 122 Spalirises 87 spices 102, 104, 120, 125, 126 Spikenard (*Nardostachys Jatamansi*) 120, 126 Spooner, D. B. 68 Śramaṇa (*or Buddhists, q.v.*) 141, 160 Sramanaioi 176 stactē 126 Statīra, stater 167 Stein, A., *Ancient Geography of Kaśmīr* 17; *Zoroastrian Deities on Indo-Scythian Coins* 164 Stobaeus, *Physica* 144 “Stone Tower” of Sarikol 115 Storax (Benzoin) 126 Strabo 6, 8, 9, 22 ff., 39 ff., 58 ff., 66, 77 ff., 89 ff., 104 ff., 115, 129, 133, 137 Strato 76, 77, 86 Stromata, ed. Dindorf 141 Στρουθόποδες 66 stūpa (*or tope*) 141, 165 Styracaceae 126 Subhāgasena 92 Sudan 92 Śūdra (caste) 50 ff. Suez (= Arsinoe, *q.v.*) 1, 2, 12, 17, 18, 89, 111 Sulla 104 Sumatra 131, 148 Sumer 16 Śunga kings 80 Suppāra 5, 11 Surāṣṭra (= Kathiāwār and Surāt districts) 71 Surāt 117 Sūryya Siddhāntas 173 Susa 26, 28 Sutlej, R. 42 Suvarṇabhūmi 5, 133