Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.32

c22.32

Eastern Prakrit, vehicle of religious culture, 316, 317. Ec(k)batana, 30, 159, 357, 358. Egypt, notions about the State in, 197; trade of India with, 273. Ekachchhatra, 21. Ekrāt, 10, 11, 21, 156; Mahāpadma an, 16. Elephant, the, in Indian warfare, 110; Greek writers on the, 95-96. Elephant device on Greek coins, 129, 130. Embisaros (Abisares), Abhisāra, king of, 37. Embolima (Amb), a city in North-western India, 52. Enotokoitai, the, 163. Epics, the, and the Arthaśāstra, 195. Episkopoi, 160. Eratosthenes, President of the Alexandrian library, 33; description of India by, 43; on rains in N.W. India, 92-93; on the size of India, 91-92. Eronnaboas (Hiraṇyavāha), 315. Ethiopia, 95. Eucratides, coins of, 130, 131. Eudemo(u)s, 139, 147, 151; and Porus, 149, 150; continuance of, in India, 79; put in charge of the Indian province, 77-78. Eudoxus of Cyzicus, 273 n. Euergetes II, king of Egypt, 273 n. Eumenes, 103, 151; fight of against Antipater, 150. Eurymedon, Persian defeat at, 32. Euthydemus, I dispossession of Diodotus II by, 130; coins of the house of, 131.