Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.1

c22.1

Abastenoe, see Ambaṣṭhas, 40. Abhidhamma, 215, 302. *Abhidhānacintāmaṇi* of Hemachandra, 148. *Abhidharmapiṭaka*, 284. *Abhinavabhāratī* a commentary on the Nāṭya Śāstra, 329. Abhinavagupta, 329. Ābhiras, the, a tribe, 40. Abhisāra, (Abisares) the territory east of the Indus, 36, 50, 51-52; the king of, assisted by the Assakenians against Alexander, 35; and Pushkalāvatī, 36, 37; protestations of the loyalty of the rājā of, to Alexander, 64-65. Ab (h) isares, (Embisoros), the king of Abhisāra, 37, 50, 51, 52 55, 56, 59; fight of the Kathanians against, 66; made satrap of his own dominions, 68, 78; two serpents kept by, 98. Achaemenid (s) (Achaemenian), 3, 30, 32-33, 123, 260, 318; influence of the, on Maurya art 367-375 389, 390; over the Mauryan Court, 353, 359; successors of the, 34-42. Achaemenid empire, 1, 31, 189, 319, 352. Achaemenid inscriptions, 233. Achaemenian emperors, 318, 351 and n. Adhikṛtas same as Grāmikas, 22 *Adhyakṣas*, Superintendents, 115, 188; the *Arthaśāstra* on the duties of the, 180-181. Adraistai (Adhrṣṭas, Ariṣṭas), a tribe, 38; submission of the city of the, to Alexander, 66. Adzatathat (Ajātaśatru), 143.