The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c36.67

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Commodus, Roman emperor, 294. Comorin, Cape, 464, 476. Conjeeveram = Kāñchī, *q. v.* Constantine compared with Asoka, 198. Constantinople, emperor of, 446. Consuls, officials resembling, 134 *n.*, 253 *n.* Coorg, tribe, 138 *n.* : province, 465, 480. Copper, inscriptions on, 16, 468 : vessels, 128. Corinthian capitals, 282. Coromandel coast, 464, 465 : corruption of Choḷamaṇḍalam, 460 *n.* Corundum, 461. Cosmas Indicopleustes, author, 336. Cotton, substitute for linen, 102 *n.* : fabrics of Benares, 136 *n.* : as writing-material, 143 : trade, 481. Cottonara = Kuddam, the pepper coast, 476, 477. Council, Buddhist, of Asoka, 169 : of Kanishka, 283, 294. Court of Chandragupta Maurya, 128, 153. Courtesans as informers, 136, 147. Cowrie shells as currency, 314. Cranganore = Muziris, 462, 477. Crassus, standards of, 251. Cromwell, quoted, 188. Cuddapah, district, 465, 483. *Cural* = *Kural*, *q. v.*, 463 *n.* Currency, *see* Coinage, Coins, Cowrie. Curtius on India, 13. Cutch, Ran (Runn) of, 109 *n.* : dependent on Mo-la-p’o, 342. Cuttack (Kaṭak) District, 177 *n.* Cyrene, Asoka’s mission to, 193. Cyrus, legend of, 110.