Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.110

c22.110

Pliny the Elder author of the Natural History, 86, 89, 91 n, 135, 150, 151, 153, 153n; on the coral trade of India, 199; on the destruction of Kapisi by Cyrus, 30; on Dionysius the envoy, 168; on the first Indian Grand Trunk Road, 272; on the Prasii, 16; on the Pāndyas, 44; on the strength of Chandragupta's army, 188. Plutarch, 41, 135, 139, 156, 166, 337: life of Alexander by, 88; on Alexander's capture of Massaga, 50; on Alexander's interview with the sages, 104; on Alexander in Persia, 352-353; on the altars of Alexander, 68; on 'Andrakottos' 141; on Chandragupta and Seleucus, 152; on the chariots under the Nandas, 188; on the dislike of the Nanda ruler by Chandragupta, 143; on the Mauryan revolution, 240; on the meeting of Chandragupta with Alexander, 14, 133, 144; on the Nanda army, 16; on "Taxiles" 35. Pokharasāti, 289. Polibothra, see Pataliputra, 273. Political outlook in India, 350-352. Polybius, 138; on Antiochus and Subhagasena, 246. Polygamy, in Taxila, 103. Pompeius Trogus, 133; the account of, epitomised by Justin, 13. Popular lores, 338-339. Popular worship, 338. Porphyry, 138. Porus, (Paurava, Purushottama, the Elder) 15 n., 36, 37, 51, 52, 67, 68, 79, 132, 139; and Ambhi, 46; answer of, to Alexander, 56; Arrian on, 89-90 n.; and the battle of the Jhelum, 57-64, 126; the country west of the Beas committed to his charge, 68; fight of the Kathains against, 66; the Glauchukāyanas, placed under the rule of, 64; image of Hercules (Heracles) in front of the infantry of, 110, 305, 307; installation of, by Alexander, 149; and Parvataka, 147; satrapy of, under Alexander, 78; sent home to recruit fresh troops, 65. Porus (Paurava), the younger, 37; Hephaestion sent to reduce the territory of, 65-6. Poseidon, sea God, sacrifice to, by Alexander, 75. Posidonius, 273 n. Potali (Potana, Podana), capital of the Asmakas, 18. Pottala, see Tauala, 41. Prachya (Prasioi), 315. Prachya dialect, the court language of the Mauryas, 312. Prachya tract, 310. Pradesa, 227n. Prādesikas, (Pradeshtri), district officer, 22, 181, 182, 227, 227 n; presided over the Kantakasodhana courts, 185. Pradyota, the son of Pālaka, 20; capture of, by Udayana, 330n. Pradyota, line of, 19, 20. Praesti (Proshthas), 41. Prahlāda, f. of Kapila, 336. Prākrit, 311, 312. Prākrit dialects, script of, 323; of the east, the language of the court of Asoka, 312; use of, 192-193; the vehicle of expression by the Buddhists and Jains, 340. Prākṛtaprakāśa, the 340. Praṇaya (benevolences), 184, 192, 199. Prasenajit, a king of the Ikṣvāku clan of Kosala, 17. Prasii (Prasi(o)ai, Prāchyas), the eastern peoples, 9, 16, 19, 21, 23, 24, 96n, 97, 141, 144, 145, 150, 153, 155, 157, 158, 172, 188, 315, 350; Alexander's idea of the conquest of, 87; Chandragupta from the, 143; tiger in the country of the, 99. Praśna Upanishad, 22. Prātilakhyas of Kātyāyana, 329. Prātilakhyas, age of the, 327. Pratishṭhāna, 223, 269. Prativedakas, (reporters), 227, and n. Princes, discipline and training of, 176. Prisoners, annual release of, by Asoka, 229, 239. Prithu, a legendary hero, 171. Priyadarsana, 175. Priyangu, 330. Provinces, administration of the, in the Mauryan empire, 182-183. Proshthas (Praesti), a tribe, 41. Pseudo-Callisthenes, 147. Ptolemy, son of Logos, 51, 177; a general under Alexander, 48; and the capture of Aornos, 53-55; and the subjugation of the Mālavas, 71; afterwards king of Egypt, 59; Ptolemy II (Philadelphus), of Egypt (Turumaya,), 89, 168, 206, 207. Pulindas, a Kol tribe, 321. Puṇḍra, textile manufacture in, 263. Puṇḍravardhana, 161. Puṇḍravardhanīya, a śākhā of the Godāsa gaṇa, 298. Punishments, 224; mitigation of, 225. Punjab, river system of the, 28-30. Pupphapura, see Pataliputra, 143. Pura, the capital of the Gedrosians, 77. Purāṇas, on Mahāpadmananda, 13-14; on the successors of Asoka, 244;