The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c36.60

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Bābur, used Khaibar Pass, 53 *n.* Babylon, early commerce with, 29 *n*: death of Alexander at, 115, 120. Babylonian culture, 2: marriage custom, 162 *n.* Bacon, alludes to Oxydrakai, 102 *n.* Bactria, Alexander's conquest of, 52 *n.*: premier satrapy, 234: revolt and history of, 235–9: = Tahia, 289 *n.* Badagara, port, 456. Bādāmi = Vātāpi, *q. v.*, 441. Badāūn, city, 409. Badīn, in Sind, 109 *n.* Badis, Gedrosian port, 113. Badonsachen, king of Burma, 131 *n.* Bāghaura inscription, 415 *n.* Baghdad, Khalīfa of, 445. Bahāwalpur, state, 96. Bāhlika, tribe, 290; *see* Vāhlika. Bahmanābād, probably = Patala, 107. Bahrām II, king, 289. Baidya caste, 419. Bairāt, Asoka's inscriptions at, 176, 181. Baird Lectures, The, quoted, 250 *n.* Bājaur, valley, 55, 57. Bakarai, port, 468 *n.*, 477. Bakhirā, pillar, 167 *n.* Bakhtiyār, Muhammad, son of, *q. v.*, 385. Bakrāla Pass, 67 *n.* Bālāditya, kings, 330, 347. Baleokouros, 232 *n.* Balharās—Rāshṭrakūṭa kings, 447. Bāli in Mārwār, 405 *n.* Balkh, secondary Hun capital, 335. Ballāl Sen, king of Bengal, 419, 422, 432. Bāmiān, town, 53 *n.* Bāmyin, Hun head-quarters, 335. Bāṇa, author, 19, 23, 208 *n.*, 215 *n.*, 348, 356, 394. Bandhupālita = Sangata Maurya, 207. Bankipore, on site of Pāṭaliputra, 127, 311. Bannū, town, 407. Banskhera, inscription, 349 *n.*, 356 *n.*, 373. Banyan hospital, 192. *Bār* = waterless uplands, 99. Barābar caves, 174, 177, 206, 207: hills, 209. Bārāmūla Pass, 275 *n.*, 284. Barbarikon, port on Indus, 245. Bardanes, Parthian king, 245 *n.* Bargāon = Nālandā, *q. v.*, 329. Barhut (Bharhut), relief sculpture at, 36 *n.*: Śunga inscription at, 208 *n.* Bārī, later Parihār capital, 391, 398. Barisal, district, 415 *n.* Bark, as writing material, 29 *n.*, 143. Barygaza = Broach (Bharōch), 227.