INDEX 341
O
Oidanes, a river flowing into the Ganges,
66
Onesikritos, a Greek historian, 1
On the irrigation of India, 10
Sent by Alexander to interview the
sophists, 54-57
Ordeals, four Hindu, 145
Ormuz, Portuguese power in the island
of, advanced by Albuquerque, 227
Padmanabha, an outcast Brahman, the
informant of Roger, 237
Paliacatta (Pulicat), conflicts of castes
at, 242-243
Palibothra (modern Patna), a city of
India, 5
Shape and size of, 28
Defences of, 28
Palibothros, surname of the king of
Palibothra, 28
Palijs, a sub-caste of the Sudras, 243, 245
Palla, the meanest of the sub-castes of
the Sudras, 246
Pandion, an Indian king, 3
According to some authorities sends
presents and embassies to Augustus
Caesar, 3
Patanjali, extracts from, 155-157, 167-
168
Pariahs (Perreaes), outcasts, rules gov-
erning, 247-249
Paropamisadai, a tribe of Kabulistan and
Afghanistan, 7
Parthians, the custom of giving a sur-
name found among the, 28-29
Pasenda, a sect of the Brahmans, 259-261
Patala, a city in Patalene, 26
Patalene, the land about the delta of the
Indus, 5-6, 8, 24, 26
Conquered by Alexander, 25
Patna, see Palibothra
Patnouwa, a sub-caste of the Sudras, 245
Perreaes, see Pariahs
Persian the prevailing language in Ah-
madabad, 297
Peukolaltis, a city of India, 18
Philosophers, Strabo's description of
Indian, based on the statements of
Megasthenes, 47-52
Account of, by Onesikritos, 57-58
Physicians, the second class of the Gar-
manes, customs of the, 50-52
Pleiades, a constellation, 7
Plutarch, mention of suttee by, 72-73
Point de Galle, description of, by William
Francklin, 314-317
Poison, Hindu ordeal by, 147
Ponds, description of the construction
of the sacred, 197
Sacred Hindu, reasons for the sanctity
of, 198
Pontos, Sesostris conducts an army to, 4
Poros, king of Indian provinces east of
the Hydaspes river, 3
According to some authorities sends
presents and embassies to Augustus
Caesar, 3
Conquest of, 8, 20
Situation and size of the country of, 20
Poros (nephew of above), taken pris-
oner by Alexander, 22
Portikanos, an Indian prince whose
territory lay near the Indus, 25
Portuguese, established on the west
coast of India hi 1510, 227
Disorderly life of the, in Bengal, 291
Pradyumna, son of Vishnu, directions
for constructing an idol of, 179
Pramnai (Buddhists), subdivisions and
customs of the, 64-65
Prasioi, the most distinguished tribe of
India, 28
Prayaga, sacred tree of, 190-191
Propertius, a Latin poet, writes of suttee,
73-74
Pukara, legend of the cause of the holi-
ness of, 199
Pulicat, conflicts of castes at, 242-243
Punishment after death, Hindu beliefs
regarding, 273-276
Pyrard de Laval, Francois, a French
traveller in India, 280
Arrives at Chartican, in Bengal, and
is presented to the governor, 280,
283
Pythagoras, similarity of the doctrines of,
to those of the Hindus, 57
R
Rama, son of Dasaratha, directions for
constructing an idol of, 178
Legend of a temple founded by, 182,
185
Ramanouja Weistnouwa, a sub-sect of
the Brahmans, 252, 255-256
Ramayana, suttee alluded to in the, 71
Ravi, see Hyarotis
Records and documents, Hindu, careful
preservation of, 135-136
Reptiles in India, 37-38
Retribution, degrees of, hi Hindu be-
liefs, 172-173
Revanta, the son of the Sun, directions
for constructing an idol of, 180
Rice, abundance of the crop of, in Bengal,
284
