INDEX
Festival processions, order of march of,
63-64
Fire, Hindu ordeal by, 145
Food, Hindu, 152
Francklin, William, descriptive notes on
India, from the diary of, 314-331
Funeral ceremonies, Hindu, 148, 149
Buddhist, 149
G
Galen, quotation from, on the burning of
the dead, 186-187
Gama, Vasco da, see Da Gama
Gaudaris, according to some writers, the
country of Sopeithes, 20
Gandharvi, a river having its source in
the sacred pond Vishnupada, 191
Ganges, the largest river of India, 5
Description of the, by Krateros, 28
Account of the, by Artemidoros, 65-66
Discussion concerning the source of
the, 292-293
Sanctity of the, 293
Garie, Jean, a Portuguese soldier of
fortune in the service of Bengal, 292
Gar manes (Sarmanes), a Buddhist caste
of philosophers, according to Me-
gasthenes, 50-52
Gedrosia (Mekran), Alexander ambitious
of conducting his army through, 4
Gems found in India, 153
Ghuzz Turks, practice of the, with re-
gard to a drowned person, 187
Gioghi (Yogis), attendants of the temple
of Mahadeva, 300-301
Goa comes into the hands of Albu-
querque, 228-233
Ample military supplies found by
Albuquerque in, 230
The capital of the Portuguese, 322
Churches at, 322-323
Description of, by William Francklin,
322-327
Convents at, 323, 324-325
Captain-General of, commander-in-
chief of all the Portuguese forces in
the East Indies, 325
Decline of, 325-326
Gold-dust dug up by ants in India, 36
Gold-mines in India, 23, 27
Gorges, a mining expert of Alexander, 23
Government, Hindu, 149-150
Grammar, the first Hindu science, 136
Greeks buried or burned their dead m
ancient times, 186
Gurrea, sub-caste of the Sudras, 245
Gymnetai, a division of the Pramnai,
64-65
Heaven, Hindu idea of, 172
Herakles (Hercules), said to have in-
vaded India, 4
Hermos, formation of the plain of, 6
Hindu beliefs regarding God, 159-160
Belief regarding the soul, 160-163,
167-168
Hells, according to the Vishnu-Purana,
170
Belief regarding the return of the soul
to God, 187
Temple at Calicut, description of, 210,
213
Hindus, personal habits of the, 134-135
Manners and customs of the, 143-144
Pilgrimages not obligatory upon, 191
Of Goa offer allegiance to Portugal
through Albuquerque, 229
Hindustan, Strabo's account of, derived
from Greek records, 1
Hiuan Tsang, Chinese Buddhist pilgrim,
account of India by, 121-153
Horses, part of military equipment hi
ancient India, 42
Hyarotis (Ravi), a river of India, 18
Hydaspes (Jihlam), a river of Northern
India, 3, 7, 18
Crocodiles in the, 14
Alexander sails down the, 24
Hydrakes (Oxydrakai), a tribe of the
Panjab allied with the Persians, 5
Hylobioi, principal division of the Gar-
manes, customs of the, 50-51
Hypanis (Bias), a river of Northern
India, 3, 18
Fabulous stories told of lands beyond
the, 29
Hypasioi (Asvaka), a people of Northern
India, 7, 18
Iberia, Sesostris leads an army from, 4
Ibn Batuta, an Arabian traveller, de-
scribes suttee, 78-80
Idanthyrsos, a king of the Scythians,
overran Asia, 4-5
Idols, Hindu, causes leading to the con-
struction of, 175-177
Measures for constructing, 181
Animal sacrifice offered to, 181
Reward or punishment meted out to
the artist of, according to his work,
181-182
Honored by Hindus for the sake of
their makers, 182
Materials preferred for, 182
Erected only for the uneducated
classes, 185
