Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.2

c22.2

Aelian, a Greek writer, 86, 97, 166; on Indian birds, 99, 100; on the Mauryan palace at Pāṭaliputra, 159; on the sons of Chandragupta, 160; on war chariots in India, 110; one of the Kleitarchus' stories preserved by, 89. Agalassoi, see Agrasreṇis. Agenor, father of Peithon, 74, 78. *Agniskandhas*, 238. Agoranomoi, 272, 278. Agrāmtya, chief minister, 167. Agrammes (Augrasainya, Xandrames) see Mahāpadma, 14, 16, 23, 132, 141, 142, 145. Agronomoi, official of the rural administration in the Mauryan state, 120 and n; Megasthenes on the, 224. Agraśreṇis (Agalassoi), the, a rebullican tribe in North western India, subjugation of by Alexander, 39, 70-71. Ahandīru, on the Nandas and the Mauryas, 254. Āhāra, an adminisrtrative division under the Nandas, 22. Ahiṃsā, 233, 237, 239. Ahuramazda, 32. *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa*, 9, 15, 188, 321, 349. Aindra grammar, 328. Ajātaśatru (Adzatathat), 25, 143; father of Udāyi, 158, n; annexation of the Vrijis by, 19; conquest of Kośala by, 17. Ajita Keśa-Kambala, a Tirthika teacher, 295. Ajivakas, a community of religious men, 204, 212 215 n, 244, 245, 295-96, 299, 346, 385, 386; the, and Bindusāra, 169; and the Mahāmātras, 225; animosity of Kauṭilya towards the, 325; in Ceylon, 257. Akbar, 232. Akṣapaṭala, record office, 180. Ak (o) uphis, President of the hill state of Nysa, 35; leader of the Nysan deputation to Alexander, 48-9; visit of, to Alexander, 121. Alak (s) anda (kam), see Alexandria, 154, 199, 271. Alberuni, 12. Alexander, 14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 28, 29, 31, 32, 34, 35-39, 40, 41, 43, 83, 90 n. 91n, 92, 93, 100, 101, 115 n, 132, 143, 151, 153 n, 172, 173, 188, 178, 233, 262, 267, 292, 305; Achaemenian hegemony extinguished by, 1, 33, 318; Agrammes, the Nanda contemporary of, 141; altars of on the Hyphases, 353; arrangements by, for the administration of the conquered territories, 149; battle of, with Porus, 57-64; behaviour of, at Persepolis, 352; Bucephalus, the charger of, 130; campaigns of, in India, 45-80, 82; capture of Aornos by, 51-55; collection of snake charmers by, 98; end of the prefect of, 139, 145; exploration and return of, to Babylon, 76-78; features of the epoch after, 197-198; gold coins of, 280; historians of, 87-89; idea of, to conquer the Prasii, 87; importance of the Indian campaign of, 2; Indian coins of, 124-126; interview of, with the sages, 105, 106; meeting of Chandragupta with, 12, 14, 24, 133, 137, 142, 144; meeting of Sophytes with, 102 n., Mousikanos the contemporary of, 45; movements of, after the battle of the Jhelum, 64-66; the period to, from Herodotus, marked by a set back in the Greek knowledge of India, 87; presents to, by the Mālavas, 267, 269, by the king of Taxila, 36, 103; prohibition of the killing of peacocks by, 100; results of the invasion of India by, 78-80, 261; the return of, 68-70; and the Sibi, 39; and Sophytes, 98; unpopularity of the Nanda contemporary of, 24; visit of Akouphis to, 121; death of, in Babylon, 78, 149. Alexander of Corinth (Alikasundara), 206, 207, 217. Alexander of Epirus, 207 and n. 'Alexander's harbour', 76.