War in Ancient India c17.20

c17.20

— description of asura yuddha in the, 89-90. Purapporuḷ Veṇbāmālai, 15. Puṣpaka vimāna, 281, 282. Puṣyamitra Śuṅga, the Senāpati of Bṛhadratha, 223. Raghu, 262. Raghuvamśa, 44, 97, 115, 310; — reference to boats and ships in the, 288. Rājāditya, Chōḷa, stabbed by Būtuga, 141-2. Rājarāja, 194; — marriage alliance of, 327 and n; — invasion of Malaināḍu by, 340-41; — overseas conquests of, 293. Rājasimha Pāṇḍya, 292, 373. Rājasūya, a sacrifice, 35. Rājāvali, the, 291. Rājavijaya, the, 112. Rājēndra, marriage alliances of, 327; — overseas conquests of, 293-4. Rājyaśrī, incarceration of, 92. Raktakoḍage, 212. Rāma, 17, 18, 24, 34, 89, 97, 128, 144, 145, 237, 242, 263, 265, 273, 282, 283, 292, 293, 353, 354, 360. — alliance of, with Vāli and Vibhīṣaṇa, 313; — embassy of Aṅgada from, to Rāvaṇa, 348; — entertainment of Vibhīṣaṇa as an ally, by, 156; — flight of, from Laṅkā, to Ayodhyā, 280-81; — Hanumān, the ambassador of, 343-6; — march of, to Laṅkā, 240-41; — marriage of, with Sītā, 51; — on diplomacy, 339; — siege of Laṅkā by, 261; — taking of, by Viśvāmitra, 43; — use of brahmadatta bāṇa by, 125. Rāmāyaṇa, the, 18, 21, 88, 89, 109, 115, 128, 163, 170, 217, 222, 227, 229, 249, 261, 343; — the castles of Laṅkā and Ayodhyā described in the, 252-3; — diplomacy in the, 301; — on three kinds of envoys, 338-9; — reference to chariots in the, 159; — reference to ships in the, 286; — reference to spies in the, 353-4; — scenes from the, at Borobudur, and Aṅkhor Vat, 144-5; — scenes from the, in the Hoy-saleśvara temple at Halebid, and the Hazāra Rāmasvāmi temple at Hampi, 143; — story of the, represented in the Viṣṇu temple at Tāḍpatri, 112, 144; — sati in the, 54; — use of āgneya astras referred to in the, 103ff. Rāmeśvaram temple, of Śiva at Tāḍpatri, 142, 167. Raṇabhaṇḍāgārādhikaraṇa, an accounts officer in charge of the military budget in the Gupta period, 208. Raṇadīpikā, 201. Rapson, on the martialling of the forces, 180. Rathādhyakṣa, Superintendent of chariots, 161-2. Rathis, 13. Ratnins, 220. Rāvaṇa, 144, 237, 249, 261, 262, 265, 283, 313; — abduction of Sītā by, 17; — embassy of Aṅgada to, from Rāma, 347-8;