The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c36.133

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Mānsērā (Mānsahra), Asoka inscriptions at, 177 *n.*, 182. Mantarāja, king, 300. Manu, laws of, 152, 322. Manufactures, regulation of, 135. Mānyakheta, later Rāshtrakūta capital, 445. Marāthā wars, 5 *n.* Marāthās compared with Pallavas, 466, 492. Marava (Maravar), tribe, 458, 492. Marco Polo, in Southern India, 15, 469. Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor, 289, 294. *Mārkandeya Purāna*, cited, 6 *n.*: used by Bāna, 23. Married monks, 382. Martaban (Matama), port, 486. Mārtānda, temple, 387. Mārwār, state, 307 *n.*, 361 *n.*, 405. Masistes, story of wife of, 130 *n.* Maski, in Raichūr district, 157: Asoka inscription found at, 172 *n.* Massaga (Mazaga), town, 57–60. Māt, in Mathurā district, 272. Mathematics, in Gupta age, 322. Mathurā, city, 163: Upagupta a native of, 199: occupied by Menander, 210, 228: satraps of, 241 *n.*: Buddhist monasteries at, 286, 313: Jain cult at, 318: Iron Pillar at Delhi probably removed from, 401. Matsya, dynastic lists, 32 *n.*; kingdom, 413. *Matsya Purāna*, date of, 11, 22–4, 50. Ma-twan-lin, Chinese encyclopaedist, 265 *n.*, 353 *n.* Mauakes (Mabakes), a Śaka chief, 242 *n.* Maues, Indo-Parthian king, 241 *n.*, 242, 243, 259. Maukhari, dynasty, 331: coins, 331 *n.* Maurya, dynasty, 44, 51, 123, 134. 140, 159, 203, 253: origin of name, 123: empire, 145, 147, 153, 161: buildings, 173: Rājas in the Konkan, 204, 441. Mau-Sahaniya, Parihār capital, 406. Mazdai, legendary king, 247–9. McCrindle, works of, 13 *n.*, 127 *n.* Mediaeval period, 424. Meerut (Mīrath), Asoka pillar from, 178 *n.* Megalithic tombs, 463. Megasthenes, on India, 13, 126, 127 *n.*, 129 *n.*, 135 *n.*, 137, 140, 140 *n.*, 142 *n.*, 150, 155 *n.*, 159, 206, 460, 471 *n.* *Meghadūta*, of Kalidasa, 321 *n.*, 422. Meghavarna, king of Ceylon, 20, 303. Meghavarnābhaya = Gothakābhaya, *q. v.* Meghna, 302. Mekrān, province, = Makrān, *q. v.* Meleager, Greek general, 86. Melizeigara, port, 226. Memnon, satrap of Gedrosia, 111 *n.* Menander, Indo-Greek king, 227, 239, 254, 256, 258: date of invasion of, 229 *n.* Mercenaries, massacre of, 58. Mēros, Mount, 56. Merutunga, Jain author, 49 *n.* Mesopotamia, Roman conquest of, 275, 294. Metageitnion, Attic month, 90. Metempsychosis, 184. Mewār = Udaipur, 202 *n.*, 431 *n.* Mihintalē, *stūpa* of Mahendra at, 195. Mihira Bhoja, 393, 394, 427 *n.* Mihiragula (Mihirakula), Sākala capital of, 78 *n.*: persecution of Buddhism by, 214 *n.*: history of, 335–8, 346. Mihrān, river, 41 *n.*, 97 *n.*, 245 *n.* *Milinda, Questions of*, Buddhist book, 23, 239. Mīnavar, tribe, 457. Minglaur (Manglawar), capital of Suwāt, 57 *n.* Ming-ti, emperor of China, 293. Minnagala, capital of Nahapāna, 221 *n.* Minnagar, capital of Sind, 245. Mīr Jumla, leader of Assam expedition, 386. Mīrath = Meerut, *q. v.* Mīrpur Khās, *stūpas* and monasteries found at, 199 *n.* Mirs of Badakshan, 53 *n.* Mīrthal, town, 80. Missions of Asoka, 193–9. *Mitāksharā*, law-book, 449. Mithilā, country, 353, 416. Mithradates I and II, Parthian kings, 241–4, 259. Mitradeva assassinated Sumitra Sunga, 214, 215. Mitra dynasty, coins of, 215 *n.* Modī script, 452. Moga, king, 241 *n.*, 242. Moggali, father of Tissa, 199 *n.* Moha, river, 345 *n.* Mo-la-p'o, kingdom, 342–5.