A History of Sanskrit Literature c36.4

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*Ars amatoria*, of Ovid, 350. Artistic parallels of Açvaghoṣa's epics, 63, n. 3. Āryabhaṭa I, astronomer, 75, 411, 519, 521, 522, 523, 527. Āryabhaṭa II, *Ārya Siddhānta*, 522. Ārya Deva, *Catuḥçatikā*, 71. Ārya Çūra, ix, 67–70. Ārya Saṅghasena, teacher of Guṇavṛddhi, 283. Aryan speeches, 3. Āryāvarta, region of, defined, 11. Āçādhara, *Dharmāmṛta*, 497. Āçmarathya, authority on ritual (MS. vi. 5. 16), and on philosophy (BS. i. 2. 29; 4. 20), 475. Açoka, emperor, xxv, xxvi, 162, 163. Açoka, tree, 343. Açokan dialects, xxv, 11. Açokan inscriptions, 27, 28. Açvaghoṣa, poet, viii, ix, xvi, xxiii, 12, 18, 31, 39, n. 3, 45, 51, 54, 55–64, 80, 91, 126, 224, 433, 440, 450, 469, 483, 493, 495. Açvaghoṣarāja, king, not identical with Açvaghoṣa, 55. Açvinīkumāra, *Rasaratnasamuccaya*, 512. Asahāya, commentary on *Nārada Smṛti*, 445. Asaṅga, Buddhist philosopher, *Mahāyānasūtrālaṁkāra*, viii, 73, 77, 495. Ascetic life, Buddhist and Christian legends of, 504. Ass in lion's skin, *motif*, 355. Ass without heart and ears, *motif*, 357. Assam, king of, pays homage to Harṣa, 318. Assamese, source of, 32. Assonance (*yamaka*), 135, 141, 197, 198, 201, 212, 313, 369, 373, 378, 384, 385. Astrologers, satire of, 238. Astrology, 75, 528–35. Astronomy, 75, 516–23. Asuras, Bṛhaspati as teacher of the, 499. Āsuri, Sāṁkhya teacher, 488. Athens, role of hetairai in, 52. Atomism, 483–7. Ātreya, authority on medicine, xxiii, 505, 506, 507. Ātreya, ritual authority, 475. *Aucassin et Nicolette*, style of, 70, n. 2. Auḍulomi, philosopher, 475. Austroasiatic influences on Indian culture, Przyluski's theory of, 4, n. 2. Austroasiatic origin of the Svayaṁvara, xi, 361, n. 1. Autumn, description of, 84, 110, 120. Avalokita, teacher of Vāgbhaṭa I, 510. Avalokiteçvara (from *Avalokita-svara* contaminated with *lokeçvara* acc. to Mironov, JRAS. 1927, pp. 241–52), 222.