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INDEX.
cotton-tree, Greek notices of the Indian ...... 337 crocodile, ancient Greek notices of the ......... 306 cures amongst the Aborigines of India......... 131 Curiosities of Indian Literature...... 124, 206, 236,
261, 292, 323
Dadhipadra, ancient name of Dôhad, 7.0....... 124 Dadhipura, the modern Sanskrit name of
Dôhad, qu. ........................................ 124 DalAls of Dehll, their slang, &c. ...............155ff Damodaragupta, a doubtful silver coin of...... 67 Damba! Buddhist inscription of Vikramaditya
VI., comments on the ..... ............ 15 Darbar villages of the JAlandhar and Bart
Doabs, the .......................... ............... 61 Darbhanga, history and list of kings of, 187;
popular etymology of the name refuted ... 183n darsana, in the sense of religious procession' 233 Dasagranthins in the Southern Marathi
Country ... dates; see eras. . recorded in decimal figures 10, 18, 19, 20,
76, 103, 123, 140, 160, 168, 234, 317 recorded in numerical symbols... 58, 66, 67
68, 75, 98, 328, 333, 342 ff, 351 recorded in numerical words ............ 53 . recorded in words ... 12, 69, 103, 123, 160,
200, 288, 317 days of the lunar month, mentioned in recorded dates :bright fortnight ; first.....................234, 288
fifth sixth ................... 46(P) seventh ................... 191 tenth ...................... 20, 98
those of the planets, and this nomenclature is of Indian origin, Iff;-this theory of the origin of the nomenclature disputed, 322;
the methods by which their names were fixed ..............................................2, 3221 death-customs of the Aborigines of India........ 132f decimal figures, instances of the nse of, 10, 18,
19, 20, 76, 103, 123, 140, 160, 168, 234f, 317, 318;-in composition with a numerical
symbol; an instance ............................. 351 demons in the Kin-Shan Range ................. 160 Derbend captured by the Mongols............... 175 Désiga gana, Désiya gana, a Jain sect belong
ing to the line of Kundakundácharya...... 23 Dévadatta, samanta, the Shêrgadh Buddhist
inscription of; edited, 45;-interpretation
of the date ......................... ................... 3511 deva-griha-jagati, perhaps means 'a temple
and its grounds,' or 'a temple with the
buildings connected with or attached to it' 161n Dêvarija, a name of Navakåma (Western
Ganga) ................................................ 230 devil-worship, a possible modern instance of,
in the Kanarese country .......................... 297 Dhanabhati (Sunga), Bharaut Stúpa inscription of; edited
............ 1381 Dhâri, city in Central India, the kings of ... 159 Dhårdvarsha, a biruda of Dhruva II. (Rash.
traktas of Gujarat) ......................198, 202 Dharmadêva (Lichchhavis of Nepál); his
date was about A.D. 680 ........................ 350 Dharmaditya, a title of Śtladitya l. of Valabhi 328 dharmardjikd means a stapa .........................140n dhavaldra is a corruption of dhavaldgara, 'a
mansion' ............................................. 26n Dhruva II. (R&shtrakatas of Gujarat); Ba.
roda' plates of Saka-Samvat 757 ; edited ... 1968 Dhruvadova, Mahardja (Lichchhavis of Nê.
p&l); his date was A.D. 654 ................343, 350 diamonds, the Sindibád myth regarding ...... 275 dikairon of the ancient Greeks is the dung.
beetle............... .............................. 310 divination among the Aboriginal tribes of
India ................................................ 1268 dogs, ancient Greek notices of the Indian 282, 283 Dôhad, town in Gujarat'; see Dadhipadra and
Dadhipura ......................................... 124 dolphin, ancient Greek notices of the ......... 283 Dudda; & grant to the Buddhist monastery
founded by her at Valabhi .............328, 329n Durgå, goddess, a grant to ........................ 159 Durgdbhakti-Tarangint of Vidy&pati, was written in the reign of Narasimhadêva, 188, 192; - text and translation of the opening lines;
edited ........................................ 1924 .ddtaka, an official title; probably represented
by the djñadapaka of other inscriptions ... 161n
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**... 102
thirteenth
............... 123
.....
full-moon ............24, 161
twentieth ................351 dark fortnight; second ...............10, 53
third........................ 19 sixth........................ 328
ninth ..................... 161 unspecified; seventh.............. 330 days of the week, names of the, as occurring in records :
Adi ............. .................. 19 Brihaspati ........... 18, 20, 234 Budha ........................ 288, 314 Chandra ............................. 8 Guru
.....................59, 70, 190 Ravi ...........
***......... 102 Sasin ............................... 141
Soma ......................10, 123
5 ; their names in India, as with the Greeks and Romans, were taken from
