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Cetis, an ancient tribe, 26, 29 Ceylon Chronicles, 261, 274-277 Ceylon, ignored in the old records, 29; date of first Aryan settlement in, 33, 104; history of language in, 155; were the Pali books forged there? 170 foll. scholarship in, 304 Chambā, 32 Champa, 23, 35, 104, 200
Chanakya, 270
INDEX
Chandragupta, emperor of India,
259-271
Charms, 5
Childers, Professor, 201 Cholas, 298, 311
Chunam work in ancient buildings, 69, S2
Cities, very few in number, 50; architecture of, 61 foll.; great size of, 35, 263
Clans, in ancient India, 17-22 Climate, influence of, 42, 43 Coins, 100 foll., 106; the oldest Sanskrit, 136
Colours, the four, 53, 62 Commensality and connubium,
52, 57, 5S
Common lands, 45-48 Constantine, 298 Copper plates, 122-125 Cowell, Professor, 189 Credit, instruments of, IOI Cromwell, 306, 307 Cutch, see Kacch
D
325
Devadaha, the Buddha's ances
tor, IS
292;
Devadatta, the Buddha's cousin, 13, 193 Dhamma, meaning of, sketch of Asoka's, 294-297 Dhamma-kathika, 167 Dhana Nanda, king of Magadha,
267
Dialogues of the Buddha, date of, 107
Diana, the goddess, 217 Diogenes, 245
Dipavamsa, 276, 277 Disease due to escape of the soul, 252 Divyāvadāna, a book of legends,
Dagabas, So Dakkhinapatha, 30 Dancing and music, 186 Dantapura, settlement at, 31 Dasaratha, Asoka's grandson,
10
D'Oldenburg, Professor Serge, 209
Drama, use of the, 184-186 Dravidian, names of imports
into the West, 116: tribes, civilisation of, 53, 56; dialects, charged with Sanskrit, 156; kingdoms, 311
Dreams, 252, 253 Drugs, 98
Dundubhissara, 299, 300
Dushta Gamini, king of Ceylon, 278, 311
Dvaraka, capital of Kambojā,
28
Dyaus, 236 Dyers, 93
E
Earth, the mother, 47, 219 East, the immovable, 237 Economic conditions, S7 foll..
143
Dead, curious customs as to disposal of the, 78-82
Dekkan, 30, 311, 312 Delhi, 27
Deussen, Professor, 190
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
258
Eights, the name of a book of lyrics, 178
Elephant. legend of the decoy, 5; their use in war, 266-268 Elu, the Prakrit of Ceyion, 155 Endogamy and exogamy, 52 Epics, growth of, 179-183, 206 Eran coins, 115
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