Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.17

c22.17

*Aśokavadāna*, the 167; Chandragupta ignored in the, 134. *Aśokavardhana*, see Aśoka, 207. *Aśokavardhanāvadāna*, 243. *Aśokavarma*, mentioned as a ruler of Kāñchī, 249. *Aśokeśvara*, 219. Aspasians, see Aśmaka, 34, 47. Assagetes (Aśvajit ?) a chieftain that helped Alexander, 51. Assakenians, a tribe in North-Western India, 34, 35, 47; attempt of the, to expel the Macedonians from N. W. India, 150. Assakenoi, a tribe in North Western India, 51; subjugation of the, by Alexander, 49–50; rebellion and subjugation of the, 65. Assakenus, 15 n, 36. Assam, and Aśoka, 221–222. Assyria, 344. *Aṣṭādhyāyī*, the, 284. Astes, a chief in the Pushkalāvatī region, death of, 47. Astomi, 163. Astynomoi, officers in charge of the city, 120–121 and 120 n, 278. *Aśvaghosha*, 196, 318. *Aśvamedha*, a sacrifice, 171, 289. Athena, figure of the helmeted head of, on a coin, 127. *Aśvamitra*, 298, 299. Athenaeus, a Greek writer, 134, 139, 168. Athens, coins of, 128, 129; visit of an Indian philosopher to, 81. Attalus, a general under Alexander, 59. *Aṭṭhaka* (*Aṣṭaka*) a Vedic Ṛṣi, 287. *Atharvaveda*, the, 262, 333. Audumbara (Kotumbara), 269. Augrasainya (Agrammes), son or descendant of Ugrasena, 14. Augustus, 134. Austric speech, 308, 319, 320. *Āvalyakaśutra*, the, 298. Avanti, 300. *Avantisundarī*, 330. *Avadānakalpalatā* the, of Kshemendra, 132n; mention of Aśoka in the 141. Avanti, (Malwā) 136; and the Śaiśunāgas, 18; control of Chandragupta over, 155. Avantis the, see Pradyotas, 19. *Avadānas*, 203; the, on the oppression in the provinces, 182; on the successors of Aśoka, 243–44. Awadhi, Eastern Hindi 317. Ayodhyā, the camp of Nanda in, 17, 21. *Ayuktikas*, officers, 227.