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Alliance of, with Drupada, 106
Military campaigns of, 106
Believed to have invaded Bengal and
Ceylon, 110
Second exile of, 107
In thirteenth year of exile take service
under the king of Virata, 108
Send an envoy to Hastinapura to claim
back their kingdom, 109

Go to Hastinapura, 110

Pandoi (Pandyas), Hindu nation, 206

Pandu, grandson of Santanu, 100

Pandya, a Hindu kingdom, 203

Pandyas, kingdom of, 185

History of, 206-207

Panini, Sanskrit grammarian, 193

Panjab, Aryan settlements in, 4

Irrigation by means of wells in, 15
Seven rivers of the, 49

Colonized by Aryans, 97

Pantheon, Hindu, adopted and modified
by Buddha, 308-309

Parasurama, legend of, 117

Parikshit, father of Janamejaya, 132

Parishads, schools, 144

Parthalis, capital of the Kalingoi, 205

Particularity, category of, in Vaisesika
philosophy, 266

Parvana, a rite performed on new and full
moon days, 248

Parvata, 132

Pasturage in Early India, 17

Pataliputra (Patna), metropolis of India

for nearly a thousand years, 299
Capital of the Prachyas, 204

Council at, 819

Patanjali, founder of Yoga philosophy,
257-258

Paulkasas, explained as a caste, 231

Philosophic period, summary of, 273

Philosophy, its debt to the Kshatriya

caste, 85
Six schools of Hindu, 194-195
Mimamsa, 268
Purva Mimamsa, 268-270
Uttara Mimamsa, 268-269
Nyaya, 262-264
Sankhya, 254-267, 268, 271
Vaisesika 264-266, 271
Vedanta, 195, 268-273

Yoga, 268-261, 271

Phonetics, science of, 192

Pindapitri-yajna, sacrifice to departed

ancestors, 162

Ceremony of, 166-166

Pitakas, sacred books of the Buddhists,

281-282
Date of, 281
Said to have been reduced to writing

about 88 B. c., 321

Plants of ancient India, 217

Political life, decadence of, in India, 3

Polygamy, 164

Allowed among kings and rich people

in Vedic times, 67

Polyandry unknown in ancient India, 164

Prachyas, the most powerful nation in

the fourth century B. c., 204

Boundary of, 205-206

Prajapati, his part in creation, 167-168

Prajapatya marriage, 239

Pratisakhyas, 192

Pregnancy, rites of, 246

Priestly caste, rise of the, 83-84

Priests, professional, 6, 77

Studied nature, 78
Divisions of, 86-87
Sacrificial duties, 86
And kings become separate castes in
the Epic Age, 136
And soldiers mingle and intermarry

with the people, 150

Prisni, the storm cloud, 72

Problems, in Nyaya philosophy, 263

Proof, in Nyaya philosophy, 262-263

Puranic legends, development of, from the
myths of the Big- Veda, 26

Purusha, 176

Pushan, an Aditya, 69

Hymn to, 17-18

Sun-god of the shepherds, 70

Pushpamitra, king of Kashmir, 321

Q

Qualities, seventeen, in Vaisesika philos-
ophy, 266

R

Rahula, a convert to Buddhism, 293

Son of Buddha, admitted to the order,

297

Rajagriha, Council of, 318

Rajasuya, imperial coronation sacrifice,
163

Rajputana, a desert, 126
Described by Megasthenes, 206

Rama, son of Kausalya, 119

An incarnation of Vishnu, 116
A recrudescence of Indra, 116
Wins Sita at a svayamvara, 119
Husband of Sita, 116
Goes into exile, 120
Preparations of, for the recovery of
Sita, 121
Alliance of, with non-Aryan tribes, 121
Kills Vali, 121
Exiles Sita, 123

Kills Ravana, 123