The Greeks in Bactria and India c35.9

c35.9

Bajaur, 135, 170, 237, 323, 389, 504, 520 Bajaur hoard, 165, 229, 319, 440, 467 Balkan Bay, 491-3 Balkh, 71, 117. See Bactra Baluchistan, 91, 94, 155 Bamyan, 97, 99, 139-40, 211, 393 n., 394 Band-i-Emir river, 114 Bandobene, 97, 114 Barce, 244 Barene, 443 Barkanioi, 83 n. Barsine, 449, 450 Barygaza, 171, 243, 271, 321; old shrines at, 148, 320; the wells, 148, 311; under Apollodotus, 149-51, 163, 165; trade, 260, 362, 364, 368, 372-3, 483-4 Bassarica, the, 238 n., 381, 487 n., 512 Beas, 144-5, 167, 219 Begram, 217, 228, 441, 461-2 Bel, 187, 253, 563 Bellaios, 484 and n. Berenice II, 227 Berossus, 41, 59 Besnagar, 365, 389; column, 313, 380, 388, 406 Bhāga or Bhāgavata (king), 313-14, 406 Bhāgabhadra, 313-14 Bhagadatta (Apollodotus), 87 n., 165 Bhagavadgītā, 381, 406 Bhāgavat, 406 Bhāgavata(s), 381, 391, 406-7 Bhāgavata (a man), 406 Bhakti, 404, 406-7 Bhallas, 169 Bharhut, 396 Bhāsa, 374, 382 Bhilsa, 406 Bihar, 155 Bimaran casket, 103 n., 399 Bindusāra, 129, 152 Black Sea, 489, 490 Bodh Gaya, 211, 396 Bokhara, 93, 117, 291, 306-7 Bombay, 254, 257-8, 372-3 Brahmanism, position of, 172, 175-6; and Greeks, 175-6, 391 Brahmans, 173-4 Brahmi, 162, 359, 388 Brazil, 297 Brihat Samhitā, 108, 239, 452 Britain, 441 Bubacene, 114, 443 Bucephala, 16, 49, 98, 163, 168, 258, 262, 318, 353; position of, 245-6; capital and mint of Hippostratus, 326-7, 356-7, 438