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INDEX.
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220
300
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expired years, seems to have taken place between A.D. 476 and 587, .. 209; - an epigraphical instance of the equation
between the Saka and Vikrama eras......... Saka princes are called Shâhi and Shahånu.
shahi in the Jain legend of Kalakacharya 95 śdkhá, lit. a branch,' a Vedic school,
following any particular recension of one of the Vedas; names of tdkhas mentioned in records :Chhandôga .......
....... 183 Madhyamdina..........
............ 118 sakh ilan pakhilaris, a term requiring expla. nation..........
.............. 10, 12n. Sakyasimha, 'the Sakya lion,' i.e. Buddha 63 Såla of Champå ; see Salavahanadêva......... 8, 9 Salakaravarman, probably another name of
Salavahanadêva ................................. 10, 12 Salakshanavarmadêva, Mahuranaka (Kau.
rava), 228, 231, 235; - his Rêwah grant of
the (Vikrama) year 1253, edited ...........227ff. Salavahanadôva (Paushaņavamsa), 8, 11;
he probably also had the name of Salkkaravarman, 10, 12; -he is the king Såla of Champå, mentioned in the Rajatarangin
as conquered by Ananta of Kasmir.............8, 9 Saljaqs of Kirmân, a Persian history of the 358 Salsette dialect, specimens of ..................16, 17 Salsette folklore ............. .....................13ff. samadhigatapanchamahdsabda, applied to a
supreme sovereign (in the spurious grants
of Dadda II.) ......... ............... 183, 194 Samasa-Sanahitá, an astronomical work by
Varahamihira, quoted by Utpala in support of the heliacal-rising system of the Twelve
Year Cycle of Jupiter .......................... 313 sandhya, a period at the commencement of
each of the four Hindu ages; the sandhyá of the Kaliyuga lasts for 36,000 years of men, and is still running ................... 207n. sandhyamsa, a period at the end of each of
the four Rindu ages; the sandhyamra of the Kaliyuga is to last for 36,600 years of men.........
................. 207n. Sangamika, ancient name of the modern
Samgamner ............ Samgamner, town in the Ahmadnagar District,
mentioned under the ancient name of Sam.
gamika ............................................. 118 Samîpadraka, ancient name of probably the
modern Samrå.................... ............... 193 Samkiya, ancient name of the modern Sanki 184 sankranti, or sankramana, the entrance of
the sun into a sign of the zodiac; the days of sankranti are the initial days of the solar months, 147; - Prof. Jacobi's method and Tables for calculating the samkrantis, 146,
161.;- names of the sankrantis, as used in recorded dates :
Dakshinayana (summer solstice) ............264 Karkataka(Cancer).............. Makara (Capricornus) ........................ 218 Tula (Libra) Vishuva (equinox) .......
300 Samkshobha, Mahdrája (Parivr&jaka); exami
nation of the date in his grant of the Gupta year 209.............
................ 336 Samra, a village in Gujarat; probably men.
tioned under the ancient name of Sami.
padraka..................................................... 193 sarwat, an abbreviation of the word sansvat.
sara, 'a year,' or of any of its declensional cases that can be used in expressing a date; used as a declinable word, in the locative,
251;-used in apposition with a locative......247 sarvatsara, ' a year ;' the reason why the
earlier years of Hindu eras are quoted by this term, or by the abbreviations san and
sanwat, without any dynastic appellation... 209 san, sampi, the ancient Greek sibilant, the
prototype of a sibilant used on Indo-Scy. tbian coins...........
............... 97 Sandhier, & village in the Surat District ; mentioned under the ancient name of
Sandhiyara ............................................. 197 Sandhiyara, ancient name of the modern
Sandhier ........... sandu,' an interval of time; a certain definite
moment'............ .............. 298 and n. Sanki, a village in Gujarat; mentioned under
the ancient name of Samkiya .................. 184 Sanskrit language; a proof of its cultivation
in Ceylon in the fourth and fifth centuries
A.D. ............................................. 123, 124 sant shittah =gum arabic ...................... 143 santi, as a termination of proper names; in
Sarvajsiasanti ..............................311 and n. Sarada characters used in the Bakshâlf manuscript, 33 ;-characters of this type
used in a Panjab inscription...................... 7 Saraharågadha, a fort taken by Jagapala; the modern Sarangadh.......
............. 137 Sarah ula, apparently an ancient village in
Chamba ....................... ................9, 12 Sarangadh, a hill-fort near Raypur, mentioned
under the ancient name of Sarahara
gadha ................................................ 137 Sarfaraz Khân of Multân .......................... 19 Sarvajñaśanti, a Buddhist teacher 309, 311 and u. Sarvanátha, Mahardja (of Uchchakalpa);
examination of the date in his Bhumara
pillar inscription.................................... 337 Satavfisha, used to denote the nakshatra Satabhishaj ....
.............. 250
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197
... 118
