The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c36.62

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Bow, Indian, 70, 131: the Chera cognizance, 479. Brahmā, a god, 362. Brahmagiri, Asoka's inscriptions at, 176 *n.*, 180. Brahmakshatra, meaning of, 424 *n.*, 435. Brahman, opposition to Alexander, 105: caste, and Rājas, 424. Brahmanābād, error for Bahmanābād, *q. v.*, 107 *n.* *Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa*, 11, 23, 24. Brahmanical reaction, 204, 213. Brahmanism, popular in W. India under the Āndhras, 224. Brahmans, town of, 100. Brāhmī script, 29 *n.*, 175. Brick buildings, 143. *Bṛihad-devatā*, referred to, 96 *n.* Bṛihadratha, Maurya king, 204, 207, 208. *Bṛihatkathā-kośa*, 462 *n.* Broach = Bharōch, *q. v.*, 226. Bronze vessels from the Nilgiris, 463. Buckler, Indian, 70, 131. Buddha (Gautama), relics of, at Piprāwā, 17: birth and life of, 30: preceded by 'former Buddhas', 165: visited by Ajātaśatru, 34-6: belonged to Śākya clan, 38: death of, 38, 49-50: birthplace of, 167: area of personal ministry of, 197: on coins of Kanishka, 281: deified, 282, 359: footprints of, 360: Harsha's golden image of, 362: Hiuen Tsang's relics of, 365: Harsha seized tooth of, 386. Buddhadāsa, Ceylonese king, 14. Buddhaghosha, 14 *n.* Buddhism, I-tsing on history of, 27: origin of, 30: Bhābrū edict important in history of, 176: leading tenet of Asoka's, 185-7: Holy Land of, 196: earliest Burmese, 197: Asoka's preference for, 197: persecutions of, 213: Tāranāth, Tibetan historian of, 227, 229, 361 *n.*: Menander a convert to, 239: Hīnayāna, ancient form of, 283: Mahāyāna, newer form of, 282, 285 *n.*, 319, 357: conversion of Kanishka to, 280: Vikramāditya tolerant of, 315, 321: at Mathurā in Fa-hien's time, 313: merciful teachings of, 314: gradual decay of, 315, 320, 358: prevalence from 200 B. C. to A. D. 200 of, 318: Sammitīya school of, 352, 359: favour of Gupta kings to, 309, 320, 331: devotion of Harsha to, 357-65: in Tibet, 378: in Nepāl, 382: destruction in Bihār of, 420: decline in Deccan of, 444, 446: in Bengal, 384, 385, 418: in Southern India, 458, 483, 499. Buddhist canon, 11, 30: Chinese pilgrims, 14, 24-7, 367: ecclesiastical legends, 33 *n.*, 34-8: instructors of Asoka, 165, 167: Holy Land, 177, 196: church council convened by Asoka, 169, 283: establishments in Nepāl, 170: Pāli books, 174: monastic order, 166, 358, 359, 364: fame of Asoka, 177: influence in India and abroad, 193, 197: church in Ceylon, 195, 198: fame of Kanishka, 271: monasteries, 278, 314, 358, 483, 495: council of Kanishka, 283: rule of life, 314: inscriptions, 318: coins of Kanishka, 281, 319: King Sīlāditya a devout, 343: monks in Sind, 368: in Ujjain, 369: Pāla kings of Bengal, 384, 414, 417: temples at Negapatam, 486: Siṁhavarman, Pallava king, a, 499. Budhagupta, Rāja, 330, 332, 346. Bull, the Pallava cognizance, 499. Bundēla clan, 429. Bundēlkhaṇḍ = Jejākabhukti, *q. v.*, 405. Bundi, state, 202 *n.* Bunēr country, 57 *n.* Bunhār Pass, 83 *n.* Burma, customs of, 129 *n.*: Buddhism in, 197: English conquest of, 379. Burmese occupied Assam, 386. Buzantion, port, 226.