Public Administration in Ancient India c25.5

c25.5

BALANCE of Power, Chānakya, &c., on, 195 Balances and Weights, State Control of, 292 Superintendent of, 124 Bali, Hindu architecture in, 255, 256 Barbarikon, seaport, 268 Barygaza, trade of, 268 Battle-array, various kinds of, 210 *et sqq.* Battle-fields, choice of, 209-10, 230 Benevolences, 179 Bengal, Pāla Kings of, territories of, 61 & *n.* 2 Universities of, 287 Berar, University in, 286 Betting, Fines on, 175 Bharata, first Monarch to bring all India under Āryan influence, 48 Bhāsa, poems of, 6 Bhāskara, of Nilantha, the, 13 Bhilsa Topes, the, 248 Bhīma, 230 Bhoja, King of Dhara, 13 *n.* 1 Bimbisāra, of Magadha, 59 Birth, not original ground for Caste-grouping, 19 Births and Deaths, Enquiries into, 296-7 Bodh-Gaya, Asoka’s Temple at, 247 Bows, 204, 205, 207-8 Brahmana Caste or Brahmanas, Architecture of, in extra-Indian lands, 254-5 Ascendancy of, 21 Duties of, 20 Exemption of, from Taxation, 178 Immunity of, from certain forms of Punishment, 171 Judges generally of, 144, 171-2