Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.116

c22.116

Rājapatha, 270. Rājaśāsana, and dharma, 198-199. Rājaśekhara, 318; on the court of learning at Pāṭaliputra, 325; on Upavarṣa, 335. Rājasūya, a sacrifice, 171. Rājāvalikathe, on Bhadrabāhu, 161, Rājuka, an officer of the highest rank, 22, 224, 225, 226, 227. Rajjū, a source of revenue, 224. Rajjugrāhaka, rope-holder, 224. Rākshasa, the Nanda minister, 15, 146. Rāma, a legendary hero, 171. Rāmāyaṇa, the, 19, 195, 208, 308. Rambakia, a village, colonisation of, by Hephaestion, 77. Rampurva, 267, 370, 373, 377, Aśokan column at 204, 205, 361, 362; 365, 366, bull on the column at, 370, 372, 376, 377, 382, 388; lion on the column at, 372. Rapson, on coinage in ancient India, 279; on the coins of Sophytes and Seleucus I, 127-28; Rāṣṭra (Janapada), 224. Rāṣṭrika (Rathika), 222, 223, 225. Rāṣṭriya, 22, 223. Ratis (guñjas), a unit of weight, 127, 279, 280, 281, 282 n. Rawlinson, on the Sattagydians, 30-31. Republics (Sangha), in the Mauryan period, 173; tribes in N. W. India, 70-73 weakening of the, by Chandragupta, 337. Rhodes, Deinon, a historian of, 89. Rigveda, the, 262, 264, 265, 279, 288, 289, 343, 350. River-gold, 95. Rituals, Aśoka on the performance of, 233, 236, 237 Rock Edicts, 204, 212, 213, 222, 233, 234, 250; V and XIII, 154, 206-207, 210-11, 217. Rohana in S. E. Ceylon, 256. Rostovtzeff, on Chandragupta, 198; on the Hellenistic view of the ownership of land, 177-178 n. Roxana, favourite wife of Alexander, 74. Royal decree, validity of, 174. Royal hunt, suppression of, by Aśoka, 239, 241. 'Royal Road', 272. Rudradāman, 233; Girnar inscription of, 134, 139, 155, 171, 199, 208. Rummindei, 221, 313, Aśoka's inscription at 204; 205, 213, column at, 361, 362, 365. Rupnath, Minor Rock Edicts at, 204, 233; column at, 363.