Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.19

c22.19

Babylon, (Baveru), 270; death of Alexander at, 78, 149; exploration of, and return of Alexander to, 76–78; Harpalus, satrap of 69; Herodotus on the Persian Governor of, 85–6; partition of, 139; Seleucus in, 151. Babylonia, 344; Alexander's mint at, 125, 126. Bactria, 33; conquest of, by Alexander, 46; revolt of, from Syria, 2. Bactrian Greeks 85; allegiance of the, to Seleucus I, 130. Bādāmi, the Chaluyas of, 248. Bādarāyaṇa, author of the *Vedāntasūtras*, 335. Bahmanabad, 41. Bāhrikas (troupes of performers), 179, Bairāt, Minor Rock Edicts at, 204, 211–212. Bālhikas, 146. Balissaha, a disciple of Mahāgiri, foundation of the Uttarabalissaha-gaṇa by, 298. Balkh, 46. Bāṇa 196, 208n; on Pushyamitra's execution of Bṛhadratha, 189, 246; reference to the *Vāyu purāṇa* by, 23. Bandhupālita (Samprati ?) 244, 245. Bankipur, 379. Barabar caves, 265, 313, 384, 385; inscription of Aśoka in the, 204, 205. Baroda, Yaksha image from, 380, 381, 383. Basarh, 389. Basarh-Bakhira, Aśokan column at, 361, 362, 374, 377; lion figure in the column at, 369–70. Basileus, king, 34, 36, 37, 38. *Bauddha Pārvatīya vaṃśāvalī*, 147n. Baudhāyana, 164n, 333; on the Āśramas 335–336; on the vānaprastha, 334. *Baudhāyana Dharmaśūtra*, 321. *Baudhāyana śrauta sūtras*, 349–50. Baveru (Babylon), 270. Bazira (Bir-kot) subjugation of, by Alexander, 50–51. Bear, constellation of the, 92. Beards, dyeing of the, in India, 102 and n. Behistun insc. of Darius, 359. Benares, see Kāśī, 17, 269, 271, 313. Bengal and Aśoka, 221–222. Bersaentes, Satrap of Arachosia, 33. Besnagar, Garuḍa column from, 389; inscription, 305. Bessus, the satrap of Bactria, 33.