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Architecture in old times, 63 foll.
Ardha-Māgadhi, 154 Aboriginal tribes in India, 43, Armies, size of, in India, 266 44, 54, 55
Aryan, immigration, routes of, Adityas, the gods, 236
31 ; settlements in the South, Agama, later term for Nikāya, 168
Asavas (Intoxications) 296 Agni, 216, 219, 235, 242
Asceticism, see Tapas Ajātasattu, king of Magadha, 3. Asoka, not mentioned in the 12-16, 89
Buddhist canon, 174, nor by Ājivakas, an order of ascetics, the Greeks, 272 ; Indian ac143, 290
counts of, 276 ; his treatment Akbar, 307
of the Buddha relics, 278 ; his Akhyānas (Akkhănas), 183, 185 marriage, 279; his coronaAldermen of the guilds, 96, 97 tion, 280; his conquest of KaAlexander, his Indian coin, 100 : linga, 282; his conversion,
his invasion of India, 267, 268 282-284 ; his buildings, 286Alphabets, 116-118, 124, 131
290; his Edicts, 290-299; his Alwis, James, 28
missions, 298-300; his sending Ambattha's visit to the Sākiyas, the Bo Tree to Ceylon, 302–
304 ; other measures to proAmitra-ghāta, 272
pagate his Dhamma, 304 ; his Ancient history and modern, the failures, 305 ; his character,
dividing line between, 240 Andhra dynasty, 310-312
Asoka Avadāna, 276 Angas, name of a tribe, 23 ; name Aśramas, the four, brahmin of Jain books, 164
theory of, 249, 250 Animism, 210-230
Assakas, an ancient tribe, 27. Añjana, the Buddha's grand. 203 father, 18
Assattha tree, 230, 234 Añjana Wood, near Säketa, 39 Assyria, 113 Anuradhapura, 69, 70, 75, 85, Asuras, see Titans 201, 277, 311
Asvaghosha, poet, 315 Āpastamba, date of, 32
Asvins, 236 Arachosia, 26S
Ātānatiya Suttanta, 219 Archäology in India, 41, 132 | Atharva Veda, 166, 213, 252
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