Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.111

c22.111

Purāṇādhiṣṭhāna, (Pandrethan, ) 219. Purāṇa Kassapa, a Tirthika teacher, 295. Purāṇa literature, 333. Puranic accounts, 135. Puri, capital of the Mauryas of Konkan, 248. Pūrṇavarman, a descendant of Aśoka, 248. Purohita, 175, 176. Purus (Pauravas), 37, 147. Purushas, (Pulisas), agents of the king 200, 224-225, 227. Purushamedha, 289. Purushapura, (Peshawar), 229. Purva Nanda, interpretation of, 20. Pushkalāvati (Peuce laotis), 35, 47, 272; submission of, to Alexander, 51. Pushpadanta, a Sivagaṇa, 329. Pushpapura (Pāṭaliputra), 209, and n. Pushyadharman, 244. Pushyagupta, the Rāṣṭriya of Chandragupta in Surāṣṭra, 155; 160; construction of the Sudarśana lake by, 182. Pushy(p)amitra, generalissimo of Bṛhadratha, 246, 247, son of Pushyadharman, 244; does away with Bṛhadratha, 189; Pygmies, a people in north west India, 89. Pyrrho, founder of the Sceptic system, in India, 81. Pyrrhus, Indian mahouts in the army of, 318 Pythagoras, 106; influence of Indian ideas on, 81. Pythias of Lydia, 358.