The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c36.61

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Basāṛ = Vaiśālī, *q. v.*, 31 *n.*: seals from, 297 *n.* Basava, founded Liṅgāyat sect, 450. Bathindah, 396. Baṭīhāgaṛh inscription of Samvat 1385, 264 *n.* Battle of Hydaspes, 70–4. Battle-axe, a Pāṇḍya cognizance, 470. Bayana, stone inscription at, 395 *n.* Bazira, a town in the hills, 59, 60. Becarē, port, 469 *n.* Beghrām, coins from, 273 *n.* Behistun inscription, 41 *n.* Belūr temple, 451. Benares = Kāśī, 31: seat of learning, 65 *n.*: cotton fabrics of, 136 *n.*: sacred city, 163: Upagupta at, 199: captured by Muhammadans, 404. Bengal, Chandragupta's alleged campaign in, 317 *n.*: included in Harsha's dominions, 352: dynasties of, 412–22. Berār = Vidarbha, 211, 221. Beryls, 461. Besnagar, inscription of Bhāgavata at, 214 *n.* Bhābrū edict, 166, 175, 176, 181. Bhadrabāhu, 49, 154, 458. Bhāgalpur District, 31: Jain buildings in, 36 *n.*: copperplate, 413 *n.* Bhāgavata, Śuṅga king, 214: Purāṇa, date of, 23. Bhagēla = Phegelas, 42. Bhāgīrathī river, 421. Bhāṇḍāgārikas, Āndhra class of society, 225. Bhandarkar, R. G., on early history of India, 317 *n.*, 435. Bhaṇḍi, cousin of Harsha, 350. Bhānugupta, Rāja, 332. Bhar tribe, 341, 429. Bharhut = Barhut, *q. v.* Bharōch (Broach) = Barygaza, 227: Gurjara kingdom of, 340, 427. Bhāsa, dramatist, 39. Bhāskara-varman = Kumāra, king of Kāmarūpa, *q. v.*, 370, 384. Bhaṭārka, founded Valabhī dynasty, 326 *n.*, 332. Bhatgaon, town, 380 *n.* Bhaṭṭiproḷu, inscriptions from, 17. Bhavabhūti, poet, 392. *Bhikshus*, mendicants, 224. Bhīlsā town, 210. Bhīma, (1) king of Gujarāt, 407: (2) Kaivarta of Varendra, 416: (3) king of Mithilā, 416. Bhimbhar = Abhisāra, 63 *n.*, 92. Bhinmāl (Bhilmāl), Gurjara capital, 340, 344 *n.*, 393, 445. Bhīṛ, mound at Taxila, 66 *n.* Bhīra (Bahrah), town, 94 *n.* Bhitari, pillar at, 327: seal from, 297 *n.*, 329 *n.*, 330. Bhoja, (1 and 2) Parihār kings of Kanauj, 393, 394, 395: (3) Pawār king of Mālwa, 410: (4) tribe, 193. Bhojpur, lake, 411. Bhotan, 419. Bhṛikuṭī, Nepalese princess, 375. Bhūmaka, Kshaharāta, 221, 232 (table). Bhūmimitra, coins of, 216 *n.* Bhūnā, on Jihlam river, 87. Bhūtias, conquered by Lalitāditya, 386. Biās river = Hyphasis, *q. v.*, 79, 96. Bibliography of Asoka's inscriptions, 180. Bidaspes river = Hydaspes, *q. v.*, 82 *n.* Bihār, South (1) province = Magadha, *q. v.*, 30, 276, 412, 416, 417: (2) town, 311, 413. Bihat river = Hydaspes, *q. v.*, 82. Bijjala, Kalachurya king, 449, 450, 455. Bikanīr, State, 96. Bikram, Rāja, 320. Bikrampur, town, 419. Bilhaṇa, author, 19, 448. Bilsaṛ, inscriptions from, 448. Bimbisāra, king, 32, 34, 37, 43, 48, 51. Bindusāra, king, 154–8, 206. Birch-bark as writing material, 29 *n.*, 143. Birthday festival, 130. Births and deaths registered, 134. Bīsal Dēo = Vigraha-rāja, *q. v.*, 402. Bītpālo, artist, 417. Bittiga, Hoysala king, 450. Block-printing in Tibet, 420. Boats, used by Alexander, 63. Bōdh Gayā, Asoka's monastery at, 303: desolate in Fa-hien's time, 316: Bōdhi tree at, 360: visited by Wang-hiuen-t'se, 367. Bodhi tree at Gayā, 167, 360. Bodhidharma, patriarch, 331. Bodhisattvas, hierarchy of, 282. Bodoahpra, king of Burma, 131 *n.* Boëdromion, Athenian month, 110 *n.* Bolān route, 107 *n.* Bon, religion of Tibet, 378. Boukephala, city, 75.