Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.28

c22.28

Daimachus, Hellenic envoy, 135. Dakshiṇārṇava, southern ocean, 156. Dames, on the Sattagydians, 31. Damila, 322. Damir, 322. Damirike (Damiz, Damizakam), 43, 322. Daṇḍa, a measure, 271. Dandamis, (Mandanis), 106. Daṇḍadhara, king, 175. Daṇḍin, 191, 196, 200. Daṇḍopaṇatasāmantas, 34. Dantak(p)ura (Dantavaktra) capital of the Kalingas, 18. Dardic Khasa speech, 315-16. Darius I, Scylax sent to India by, 82. Darius (Hystapes), Achaemenian emperor 30, 350, 351, 352, 353, 357, 358; Behistun inscription of, 359, chronology of the inscriptions of, 200; *daric* coins of, 123; empire of in India, 31-32; overthrow of, by Alexander 318; tribute to, from the Indians, 84. Darius III, 33. Daśaratha, gift of caves by, to the Ājīvakas, 169, 244-45, 283n; 296, 346; epigraphic records of, 134. Dasas, 112. Daśona, 244. Dāsīkharbaṭika, a śākha of the Godāsa gaṇa, 298. Dattaka, codification of the courtezan's art by, 337. Decourdemanche, on the origin of the punch-marked coins, 123n. Deimachu(o)s, sent on an embassy to Pāṭaliputra by Seleucus, 89, 168, 354. Deinon, father of Kleitarchus, 89. Delhi-Mīrath, Aśokan column of, 205, 361. Demetrius, 198; coins of, 130. Deopatan, city founded by Devapāla, 221. Derdai (Daradas, mod. Dards), Megasthenes on, 85. Devadharman, 244, 283n. Devānāmp(r)iya, an epithet of Aśoka, 140, 175, 208, 217, 218, 233, 235, 238, 354, 359. Devānāmpiya Tissa, king of Ceylon, 257; and Aśoka, 218, 258. Devapāla, m. Chārumatī, 221. Devī, wife of Aśoka, 209. *Dhammapada*, the, and the ethical ideas in Aśoka's edicts, 230. Dhamma-paliyāya (Dharmaparyāya) 285. Dhammā, principal queen of Bindusāra, 167. Dhana Nanda, the last prince of the Nanda dynasty, 23. Dha(r)mma 169, 171, 211, 212, 250; standard of equity, 174; content and propagation of, 233-243; seven expositions of, 285-86; elaboration of, in the P. E. 213-214; propagation of, by Aśoka, 187, 232, 303; propagation by the Rājukas, 225. Dhammaguṇa, moral virtues, 234. Dhammaniyama, 240. Dharma courts, 185, 186. Dharmaguptaka, Buddhist school, 303. Dharmamahāmātras, 22, 225. Dharmānusasti, policy of, 22. Dharmaśoka, see Aśoka 165, 301. Dharmastambhas, 362. Dharmasthiya, 185.