Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c15.6

c15.6

Bab-el-Mandeb 94 Babel 16 Bāberu (Babylon) 4 Babylon 1, 3, 4, 7, 12, 14 ff., 36, 155 Babylon, plague at 129 Babylonian marshes 6 Bacchus 60, 62 Bagdad 179 Bahrein Islands 6 Baktra (= Bākhtri = Bakhdhi = Balkh) 1, 2, 9, 16, 69, 88, 115, 160 Baktria 28, 83 ff., 108, 148 Baktrian architecture 162 Baktrian Greeks 161 ff. Baktrian kings 171 Bālaśrī 85 Balkh, see Baktra Balsamodendron 125, 126 Baluchistān 83, 126 Bankot 119 baobab tree 14 Barābar, caves at 68 Barake 111, 120 Barbarikon 35, 114, 124, 125 Bardesanes 142, 145, 174 Barhut 165 Barlaam and Josaphat (see St John of Damascus) 142 Barnett, L. D. 87; *Antiquities of India* 15, 61, 167, 172 Barygaza 3, 47, 95, 107, 108, 112, 113, 116, 124, 126, 131, 136, 170 Barzuyeh 179 Bassein 133 Baths of Caracalla 168 bdellium 125 Beal, S., *Life of Hiuen Tsiang* 143 Beās, R. 42, 43 Behistūn Inscriptions, the 17, 29 Benākaṭakā 162 Benfey, T., *Indien* 11; *Pañcha Tantra* 179 Bengal 122; Bay of 132 Berbera 92 Berenike 90, 91, 99, 111 Berosus 7 beryl (*βήρυλλος* from *vaiḍūrya*) 101, 120 Besatae 123 Besnagar 162 Besynga (*or* Bassein) 133 Bhagavad Gītā 178 Bharata, Nāṭya Śāstra 169 Bharukaccha 5 Bhavabhūti 170 Bhil races, the 22 Bhotān 27, 65 Bhoja, Narapati, Yuktikalpataru 139 Bhrighu-Kaccha 116 Bhūmaka 87, 118 Bidpai (*or* Pilpay) 179 Bindusāra 39 Birdwood, Sir G. 126 Bisadae (Besatae) 147 blackwood 114 Bloch, Ann. Report, Arch. Surv. Ind. 169 Boghazköi, 3 Bolān Pass, the 83 Bolor Mts. 115 Bombay 6, 119; Prince of Wales Museum 6 Bombay Gazetteer 162 bos Lucas 13 Brachmanae 142 Brahmā 141 Brāhmaṇa (caste) 50 ff. Brahmins 50 ff., 60 ff., 141, 147, 157, 160 Brahminism 79 Brāhmī-script, the 14 Brindisium 29 Broach 14, 116, 117, 119, 120 Buddha (*see also* Gautama) 11, 32, 157, 165 Buddha's tooth 149 Buddhism 23, 39, 58, 62, 78, 108, 138, 153, 157, 162, 168, 175 Buddhism, Hinayāna 168 Buddhist architecture 28 Buddhist art 167 Buddhist ascetics 59 Buddhist Canon, the 60 Buddhist caves 85 Buddhist monasteries 143, 165 Buddhists 141 ff., 179 Bühler, J. G., Origin of the Brāhma Alphabet 4; Indian Studies 15 Bukephala (Jihlam) 34 Bunbury, Hist. Anc. Geog. 17, 69, 92, 94, 128 Bundelkhand 81 Burgess, J. 164; Elephanta 146 Burnet, Early Greek Philosophy 158 Byzantium (? Vizādrog) 119