History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c26.10

c26.10

Bhāratavarṣa, Hindu name of India, 286 Bhartṛhari, poet, 282 Bhaṭṭi-kāvya, poem, 99, 166-7 Bhaṭṭiprolu Casket, 196 Bhaṭṭotpala, commentator, v. Utpala Bhāva, nature, 225-7, 232 Bhavabhūti, dramatist, 167 bhikkhu, a Buddhist monk; Buddhist, 139-140, 146, 194, 243; Jaina, 214 bhikṣu (Skt.) = bhikkhu, 169, 184, 204 bhikkhunī (Pāli), a nun, 116, 124-5 Bhīma, hero, 218 Bhīmasena, hero, 218; -yas, 90 Bhoja, king, 155 Bhojakas, 200 Bihār, pl., 5 Bilhaṇa, poet, 205 Bimbisāra, k. of Magadha, 5, 51, 67, 73, 76-7, 85, 89, 120, 124, 132, 136 Bindusāra, emperor, 127, 131, 146-7, 151 births, Ā. categories of, chief forms, 241; conscious, 250; divine, 249; from knots, 14, 248; sentient, 14, 219, 248-250; unconscious, 14, 248; uterine, 14, 241, 248 biruda, a secondary name or royal title, 205 Bodhisatta (Pāli), in Hīnayāna Buddhism, a previous incarnation of a Buddha, 29, 84, 110, 114, 165 Bodhisattva (Skt.), in Mahāyāna Buddhism, a being who voluntarily postpones his Buddhahood to work for the welfare of the world, 165, 261 Bodhi Tree, the tree near Gayā under which Buddha gained enlightenment, 95 Bombay Gazetteer, 170 Borobodūr, pl., 106-8 Brahma, god, 175-6 Brahmacārin, student, 274 Brahmacarya, celibacy, 18, 29 Brahmajāla Sutta, 270 Brahmakalpa, Jaina heaven = Brahmaloka, 204 Brahmaloka, heaven, 30, 261, 273 Brahman, the impersonal world-spirit, 284 Brāhmaṇa, the priestly class, 12, 15, 21, 29, 131, 196; scripture, 98 Brāhmaṇism, 10, 100 Brāhmī, the earliest Indian alphabetic script, 157, 159 Bṛhajjātaka, astrological text, 169, 171