Age of the Nandas and Mauryas c22.4

c22.4

Antapāla guardian of the frontier, 277, 278. Ant-gold, 95. Antialcidas, Heliodorus the ambassador of 305. Antigonus 151; favoured by Pithon, 150; war of Seleucus with, 137–38. Antigonus Gonatas of Macedonia (Antikena), 206, 207. Antikini, 217. Antiochus, (Soter), I of Syria, 152; 153 n, 169, 219; coins of, 129; and Bindusāra, 168–69; Deimachus sent by, to the court of Bindusāra, 354; letter of Bindusāra to, 160 n; and Subhagasena, 246. Antiochus Theos (Antiyoka, Antiochus II) 206, 207, 217, 238; and Asoka, 354; independence of Diodotus during the time of, 130. Antipater, 138; fight of Eumenes against, 150; regent of Macedonia, 149. Anurādhapura, capital of Ceylon 256, 257. Anusamyāna, tours of inspection, 227 Anulā, queen of Devānāmpiya Tissa, of Ceylon, 218–219, 258. Aornos, capture of, by Alexander, 51–55; Saśigupta at, 65. Apadānas, the 164. Aparānta, textile manufacture in, 262 Apastamba, 293, 333, 335. Apastamba Dharma sutra, 333, 334. Apes, method of the capture of, 96–97 Aphamiotai, 111. Appian, 137, 138, 139, 154, 158, 169; on the relations between Seleucus and Chandragupta, 151; on the residence of Chandragupta, 158 n; the Syriake of, 135. Arabia, 95. Arachosia (Kandahar), 33, 75, 153; given by Seleucus I to Chandragupta Maurya, 130; Sybyrtius the Satrap of, 89. Arachosians, colonisation of Rambakia with the, 77. Arachoti, 152. Aramaic inscription, 355 Aramaic script, 323, 352. Aranyakas, the 308. Arāṣṭras (Araṭṭas) Republics, 68, 337. Arbela, battle of, 318. Architecture, 339-340. Ardhamāgadhi dialect, 317, 347. Aria, 153; given by Seleucus I to Chandragupta Maurya, 130. Ariana, 91 n, satrapy of, 154. Arigaon, a city burnt and deserted by its residents, 48.