A History of Sanskrit Literature c36.109.2

c36.109.2

Mātṛceṭa, perhaps identical with Açvaghoṣa, 64. Mātṛgupta, 132, 133, 163. Mauryas, use of images for profit, 428. Maya, astrologer, 530. Māyā, alleged Indian representative of Isis, x. Māyaṇa, son of Sāyaṇa, 500. Mayūra, poet, 152, 201, 202, 211, 315, 412. Māyurāja, royal dramatist, 53, n. 2. Mayūraka, a snake doctor, 315. Max Müller, theory of renaissance of Sanskrit, 35. Meat, eating of, in Tantric ritual, 482, 496. Mecca, known to *Kālacakra Tantra*, 496. Medhātithi, commentary on *Manu*, 445, 473. Medhātithi, i. e. Gautama, *Nyāyaçāstra*, xiii. Medhāvirudra, blind author, 119, n. 2. Medical dictionaries, 512. Medicine, 404, 408, 505–15. Medinīkara, *Anekārthaçabdakoça*, 414. Megasthenes, 459. Meghavāhana, king of Kashmir, 163. Meghavijaya, *Pañcākhyānoddhāra*, xii, 261. Menander, Greek comedian, 428. Meṇṭha, poet, 132, 133, 307, 339. Meru, mount, in astronomy, 520. Merutuṅga, comm. on *Rasādhyāya*, 512. Merutuṅga, *Prabandhacintāmaṇi*, 293, 344, n. 3. Mestra, legend of, 365. Metaphors, 43, 44, 61, 62, 78, 79, 106, 212, 350. *Metamorphoses*, by Apuleius, 367. *Metamorphoses*, by Ovid, 368. Methodological principles, recognized by Kauṭilya and Caraka, 461. Metonic period, adopted in *Romaka Siddhānta*, 518. Metre, 47, 48, 64, 92, 107, 108, 115, 118, 123, 124, 130, 131, 137, 141; forms of, 417–21; writers on, 415–17. Metrics, 405, 407, 415–17. Mihirakula, Hūṇa king, 163; *see the next*. Mihiragula, leader of the Hūṇas, 74. *Milesiaka*, by Aristeides, xi.