340 INDEX
Language of India, Chinese account of
the, 135
Law, Hindu criminal, 145
Living, conditions under which the bodies
of the, are burned, 190
Logic, the fourth Hindu science, 136
Lohita, a sacred pond, 192
Lohitanadi, a river having its source in
the sacred pond Lohita, 192
M
Maccoba, a sub-caste of the Sudras, 245
Macedonian conquests in India, 3
Magas, priests of the Sun, 185
Magistrates in charge of a city, 40-42
Specific duty of various groups of, 40-
42
Duties of, in general, 40-42
Mahabharata, suttee alluded to in the, 71
Extract from the, as to which wife
shall perform suttee, 102-103
Mahadeva (Siva), directions for con-
structing an idol of, 180
Worshipped by anchorites, 185
Description of the temple of, at Ah-
madabad, 300
Mahmud of Ghazni destroys Somnath,
200, 202-203
Maiandros, formation of the plain of, 6
Malabar (province) size, boundaries, and
natural defences of, 233-234
Royal succession in, 234
Royal marriage customs of, 234
Methods of treatment by the physi-
cians of, 235-236
Malacca, Portuguese power in, advanced
by Albuquerque, 227
Malloi, a tribe of Northern India, 25
Manasa, a sacred pond, 192
Manda, a sacred pond, 192
Mandakini, a river having its source in
the sacred pond Manda, 192
Mandanis. a Hindu gymnosophist, dis-
course of, with Onesikritos, 56-57
Considered superior to Kalanos, 63
Mani, quotation from, regarding worship
of the heavenly bodies, 188
Marriage, caste and affinity rules regu-
lating, 142
Customs, Hindu, 261-273
Masianoi, a tribe of India, 18
Masoga (Massaga?), capital city of the
tribe of Assakanos in India, 18
Massagetai, Cyrus marches against the, 5
Mathura, reasons for the sanctity of, 199
Matsya Purana. quotation from the, re-
garding places of pilgrimage, 191-
194
Meats, kinds of, permitted and forbidden
to the Hindus, 152
Mecca, sanctity of, 198
Medical treatment, Hindu, 148
Megasthenes, a Greek writer, 1
Discredits the ancient histories of
India, 4
Mekran, see Gedrosia
Meropis, see Kos
Metals, precious, of India, 153
Metempsychosis the shibboleth of the
Hindu religion, 160
Metrics, Hindu, Chinese account of, 125-
126
Military affairs in India controlled by
six divisions of governors, 42
Monasteries, Buddhist, architecture of,
131
Monkeys in India, 20-21
Two methods followed in capturing, 21
Size of, 30
Monks, Buddhist, costume of, 133-134
Month, Hindu, divisions of the, 127
Moon, fanciful comparison of the, with
India, 122
Mousikanos, king of Alor in Upper Sind,
12,13
Customs of the inhabitants of the
country of, 27
Inhabitants of the country of, are long-
lived, 27
Moutrea, sub-caste of the Sudras, 246
Multan, sacred pond of, 197
A former place of Hindu pilgrimage,
199
Muscat, harbour of, 331
Mynnekes (ants), habits of, 36
N
Nabokodrosoros (Nebuchadrezzar), Bab-
ylonian monarch, advances as far
as the Pillars of Herakles, 4
Naires of Malabar, 235
Narayana, directions for constructing
an idol of, 179
Bids ancient Hindus burn their dead, 1 86
Nearchos, chief commander of Alexan-
der's fleet in the Persian Gulf, 2
On the irrigation of India, 8
Nikaia, name of a city on the Hydaspes,
founded by Alexander, 20
Nikolaos Damaskenos, Greek historian,
writes of suttee, 72
Nile, width of the delta of the, 26
Animals and fish inhabiting the, 38
Noronha, Antonio de, gains possession of
Banda, 232-233
Nysa, storming of the fortress of, 5
Nysaioi, a tribe of India, 18
