The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c36.204

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Pratāpaśīla, title of Prabhākaravardhana, 349 *n.* Pratihāra = Parihār, *q. v.* Pratijñā, meaning of, 208 *n.* Prayāga, Harsha's assembly at, 363. *Prithirāj-Rāisā*, Hindu epic = *Chand-Rāisā*, 402 *n.* Prithivī-rāja, Chauhān, I, II, 402, 403, 408. *Prithivī-rāja-vijaya*, poem, 402 *n.* Privy Council, Maurya, 148. *Priyadarśikā*, drama, 356. Prome, kingdom of, 486. *Proxenos*, Maurya officials corresponding to, 134 *n.*, 253 *n.* Ptolemy, (1) son of Lagos, 13, 61, 100 *n.*: (2) Philadelphos, 156, 193, 207: (3) geographer, 232, 456, 461 *n.*, 463 *n.*, 468 *n.*, 487 *n.* Pudukottai, town and state, 17, 465, 480, 492. Puhār = Kāviripaddanam, *q. v.*, 462. Pulakeśin, Chalukya king, I, 441, 453: II, 353, 373, 441–3, 453, 495, 496. Pulicat, town, 456, 465. Pulinda, tribe or nation, 193. Pulumāyi, Andhra kings, 220–3, 231, 232. Punach, state, 368 *n.* Punch-marked coins, 66 *n.* Punic war, 206, 207. Punnāta, beryl mines at, 461. Puragupta, history of, 329, 346. *Purāna*, coin, 149. *Purāṇas*, eighteen, 11: value of, 12: date of, 22–4, 322: on Andhra dynasty, 230: ignore the South, 467. Puranic lists, 12, 23, 31, 32, 41, 43: figures for duration of reigns, 51, 230: Hinduism, 359: pantheon, 444. Puri, temple of Jagannāth at, 498. Pūrṇa-varman, the last descendant of Asoka, 204, 360. Pūrṇotsaṅga, Andhra king, 231. *Purra-porul Venba-Mālai*, Tamil poem, 457 *n.* *Purru-nānnūrru*, Tamil poem, 457 *n.*, 464 *n.* Purushapura = Peshāwar, 63 *n.*: capital of Kanishka, 276. Pushkaraṇa (Pokurna), 307 *n.* Pushpamitra, misreading for Pushyamitra, *q. v.*, 204, 208 *n.* Pushpapura = Pāṭaliputra, *q. v.*, 38. Pushyabhūti, ancestor of Harsha, 358. Pushyagupta, Vaiśya, viceroy of Chandragupta Maurya, 139. Pushyamitra, (1) Śuṅga king, 204, 208–14, 219 *n.*, 228, 229: (2) nation, 326.