The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c36.79

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Hēgemōn, Athenian archon, 89–91. Heliodoros, in Besnagar inscription, 255 *n.* Heliodorus of Taxila, envoy of Antialkidas, 238 *n.* Heliokles, Bactrian kings, 238–41, 257. Hēlios, on Kanishka's coins, 281. Hellenic, *see* Greek. Hellenistic kings, intercourse with India of, 193. Helmund river, *see* Hilmand. Hemachandra, Jain monk, 190 *n.* Hemadri (Hemādpant), Sanskrit author, 452. Hemantasena, 418, 432. Hephaistion, general, 53, 63, 77, 92–4, 107, 108, 119. Herakles, legend of, 52, 59: on Kushān coins, 287: in the South, 470. Herat (Hirāt), city and territory, 40, 126, 158, 160, 235. Hermaios, the last Indo-Greek king, 250, 254, 257. Herodotus, on India, 10, 12, 41 *n.* Hesidrus, river, 96 *n.* Hilmand, river, 240. Hima Kadphises = Kadphises II, *q. v.* Himalayan nations, 193. Hīnayāna, monastery at Kapiśa, 278: doctrine in Kāshgar, 280 *n.*: schools, 282: monastery at Pāṭaliputra, 312: primitive doctrine, 359. Hindu period, 1: mode of thought, 463 *n.*: reaction in Gupta age, 320. Hinduism, Buddhism a sect of, 197: orthodox, 318, 320: in Nepāl, 382: in Bengal, 384: at Kanauj, 390: in the South, 458. Hindū Kush, mountains, 29, 52, 126: frontier of Maurya empire, 169, 172, 236. Hindustan = Gangetic plain, 299: Muhammadan conquest of, 404. Hingol, river, 112 *n.* Hippokoura, ? = Nāsik, 232 *n.* Hippolytus, folk-lore tale of, 201. Hippostratos, Indo-Greek king, 258. Hiraṇyavatī, river, 167 *n.* Historian, duty of, 3. History of the South, 466. *See* Indian history. Hiuen Tsang, Chinese pilgrim, 14, 21: *Travels* and *Life* of, 25, 26, 348: on Buddhist sects, 360: