Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.20

c22.20

Bhābrā edict, (Calcutta Bairat), rock ins. 204, 285. Bhadrabāhu, a Jaina patriarch, 161—162 and 161n, 165 249,; migration to Mysore, 297, 299, 341; return of, to Magadha, 298; Kalpasūtra of 142 n. Bhaddaśala, a general of the Nandas, 15, 25, 146; conquest of, by Chandragupta, 136. Bhadreśvara author of the Kahavali, 136. Bhagala, designation of a royal race of Kshatriyas, 38. Bhagala, a chieftain near the Beas, 67. Bhāgavata purāṇa, 141. Bhagu, a Vedic Ṛshi, 287. Bhandarkar, D. R. on the identification of Satiyaputa, 238n; on the identification of Sophytes, 126 n. Bharadvāja, a Vedic Ṛshi, 288, 328. Bharata, a legendary hero, 171. Bharata, author of the Nāṭyaśāstra, 318, 331. B (h) arhut, reliefs at, 375, 385, 389. Bhartṛhari, author of the Vākyapadīya, 327, 328. Bharukachchha, 270. Bhattiprolu, inscription at, 252. Bhaviṣyanukīrtana the, 19. Bhita relief, 383, 384; terracotta reliefs from, 343. Bhimaratha, 330. Bhir mound, Takshaśila represented by the, 35. Bhīshma, 251. Bhoja, author of the Śṛngāra prakāśa, 328, 330 Bhojas, a tribe, 217, 222. Bhojapuri dialect, 317. Bijjala, 15. Bimbisāra, 11, 25, 22, 15; father of Ajātaśatru, 17. Bindusāra (Amitrochades, Amitrachates, Allitrochades, Amitrakhāda, Amitraghāta), 4, 133, 134, 165, 168, 176, 210, 272, 330, 331, 346, 390; Durdharā, mother of, in Jain tradition, 159; m. the daughter of Seleucus (?) 208, 209—accession of, 206; and the Ājīva(i)kas, 169; and the Deccan, 168; Brahmanic learning under, 324; Council of five hundred under, 167 n; embassy of Deimachus to the court of, from Seleucus, 89, 354; foreign relation of, 168—69; illness of, 209; last years of, 169—179; mentioned in the Aśokavadāna, 134; mentioned in Patañjali's Mahābhāshya, 133; military success of, 261; reign period of, 138; request of to Antiochus Soter, 160, n; Subandhu a minister of, 329. Bismarck, 200. Bodhan, 18. Bodh Gayā, 241, 375, 384; Bodhimaṇḍa at 436, 385. Bodhisattvas of the Mathura school, 379, 381. Bodhimaṇḍa, 385. B (o)ucephala, a city founded by Alexander on the bank of the R. Jhelum, 64, 130. Brachmanes (Brāhmaṇa), 315. Brahmagiri, 223, 249, M. R. E. at, 204. Brāhmaṇas, attempt of the, to expel the Macedonians from N. W. India, 150; influence of the 40. Brāhmaṇa—mahāsālas, 288—289. Brahmavādins, 335. Brāhmī inscription, 220, 22, 249, 250, 253—53, 258, 309, 312, 321, 379. Brāhmī script, 205, 256, 385; derivation of the 323—324. Brahmanism in the Nanda Maurya period, 284, 287—293. Brajbhākhā, 317. Brihadratha, 244, 246; execution of, 189. Bṛhatkathā, the 20, 25, 134, 147, 325; on the origin of the Mauryas, 141, 142; on Pāṇini and Vararuchi, 326, 329. Bṛhatkathākośa, Harishena the author of, 329. Bṛhaspati, 244. Bṛhaspatimitra, 283 n. Breloer, 112 n, 113, 115 andn, 117n, 191; on the Arthaśāstra, 196. Buddha (Boutta, Śākyamuni), 35, 141, 211, 213, 214n, 215, 231, 260, 284, 294, 295, 308, 309, 311, 313, 317, 321, 324, 325, and Ceylon, 256; and the name Vṛshala, 140; nirvāṇa of the 206, 299; the religion of the 3; Vijayasimha, a contemporary of, 44; on true Brahmins, 292. Buddha era, 207. Buddhism, 284, and Aśoka, 210—212, 230—34; conversion of Ceylon to 209; Kautilya's animosity towards 324; monuments of, in South India, 452; in the Nanda—Maurya period, 299—304; and Sanskrit, 325, 326; spread of, in foreign countries, 304. Buddhist canon, 285, 286. Buddhist literature, the 340—41; Indian inland trade 269—70; on the Vedas, 289.