Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.23

c22.23

Calcutta Bairat rock ins., (Bhabra edict), 204, 268, 341. Callimachus, 138. Callisthenes, 144. Cambyses, 315. Canki, 289. Cape Malan, 77. Carians, 33. Carmania, 273. Caryanda, Skylax of, 82. Cathaeans, (Kathaioi) a self-governing tribe, 37; country of the, 38. Cave architecture in the Mauryan period, 384-87. Ceylon, (Ila, Laṅkā, Tambapanni, Taprobane), 43, 250, 253, 257, 270, 271; Aśoka's letter to the king of, 243; Aśoka's mission to, 218; conversion of, to Buddhism, 209; early history of, 256-259; elephants of, 95; fragrant wood in, 266; and Mahinda, 258; Megasthenes on, 250, 256; Pāli canon taken by Mahendra to, 317, 138; production of gold in, 95; vaguely known to Onesicritus, 92. Ceylonese, commentary on the Great chronicle of, on the last Nanda, 24; legends on the early life of Aśoka, 209 n; chronicles, 22, 134, 135, 146; on the third Buddhist council, 301-2. Chabahil, vihāra built by Chārumati 221. Chakravāla emperors, 253. Chakravartin, 10, 156, 255; ideal of the, 132, 172. Chakravartikshetram, the Arthaśāstra on the, 172, 191. Chalcolithic civilization, relics of the, 342. Chālukyas of Bādāmi and the Mauryas of Konkan, 248. Champā, 208, 269, 270, 308. Chāṇakya, see Kautilya, 1, 146, 148, 164, 166, 167, 324, 325, 330, 337; an inhabitant of Taxila, 25; legends about, 2-3. Chaṇḍakausika the, 143. Chaṇḍāla language, 308. Chandanāgari, a śākhā of the Uttara-balissaha-gaṇa, 298.