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A History of Sanskrit Literature c36.1

A History of Sanskrit Literature c36.1

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c36.1

Abacus, invented in India, 526, 527. Abdallah ibn al-Moqaffa‘, translator of Pahlavi *Pañcatantra*, 357. Abhimanyu, king of Kashmir, revives study of *Mahābhāṣya*, 428. Abhinanda, son of Jayanta, 135; *Yoga-vāsiṣṭhasāra*, 480. Abhinanda, son of Çatānanda, 135. Abhinavagupta, philosopher and writer on poetics, xvii, 214, 387, 388, 392, 395, 481. Ābhīras, 33, 34, 223, 370, 469; speech of, 32. Ablative, with words denoting near or far, 18. Abnormal causation (*vibhāvanā*), 374, 380. Abu'l-Maālī Naṣrallāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd, *Kitāb Kalīla wa Dimna*, 358. Accent, in Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, 7. Accusative with adjectives in *uka*, 18. Achievement of Sanskrit poetry, 344–51. Achilles Tatius, tale of Kleitophon and Leukippe, 363, 368. Act of truth, *motif*, 343. Ādarça, western boundary of Āryāvarta, 11. Ādi Buddha, 494. Ādi Çeṣa, alleged author of Kārikās, 481. Āḍhyarāja, i. e. Harṣavardhana, 316. Aelian, 371. *Aeneid*, unevenness of, 97, n. 1. Aerial car, 96. Aesthetic pleasure, 388, 389. Agatharchos, contemporary of Alexander the Great, 357. Aggavaṁsa, *Saddanīti*, 436. Agnivarman, king, 97. Agniveça, authority on medicine, 505, 506. Āhavamalla, Cālukya, 154, 155, 156, 157. Ahirs, descendants of the Ābhīras, 33. Aihole inscription, of Ravikīrti, xvii, 97, n. 1. Aims and training of the poet, 338–44. Airships, Greek, 369. Aischylos, Greek tragedian (525–457 B.C.), 195. Aisopos (*c.* 550 B. C.), 352; fables of, 245. *Aithiopika*, 367. Aja, prince, husband of Indumatī, 91, 94, 95. Ajaṇṭā frescoes, 68.