K
Kaikeyi, queen of Dasaratba, 119
Kali, goddess, 76
Kalidasa, poetry of, 8
Kalingoi, army of, 206
Kalpa sutra, 191
Kampilya, capital of the Panchalas, 104
Social life in, in the Brahmanic period,
149
Kanada, founder of the Vaisesika phi-
losophy, 264
Kanchi, capital of the Cholas, 186
Kanishka, early Buddhist monarch, 321
Extent of territory of, 321
Council of, 322
Kapila, founder of the Sankhya philos-
ophy, 8, 263
Kapilavastu, capital of the Sakyas, 285
Buddha's return to, 292, 296, 297
Kama knighted to fight with Arjuna, 103
Fights with Arjuna, 110
Killed by Arjuna, 110
Kashmir, 321
Kasis, a nation of ancient India, 82, 112,
143, 284
Kasyapa, conversion to Buddhism of three
brothers named, 291
A Brahman, 316
Katha Upanishad, extract from, concern-
ing Nachiketas, 181-183
Kausalya, queen of Dasaratha, 119
Kavasha, father of Tura, 132
Legend of, 139
Kena Upanishad, extract from, 175-176
Kimbila, a convert to Buddhism, 293
Kingdoms, Hindu, account of, in the Ai-
tareya Brahmana, 125-126
Kings, customs relating to coronation of,
in the Rig- Veda, 41-42
Performing religious rites, 77
Invested by priests at the coronation
ceremony, 132
Palaces of, centre of life in the Brah-
inanic and Epic times, 160
Rules for, regarding subjects, 208-209
Occupations of, 212-213
Koliyans, Hindu clan, 285
Kosalas, 119
A nation of ancient India, 112
Capital of, changed to Sravasti, 284
Krishna, a leader of the aborigines, 34
Chief of the Yadavas of Gujarat, 106
Entirely human in the Upanishads, 170
Dvaipayaua Vyasa, reputed author of
the Mahabharata, 120
Krita age, 135, 136
Kshatriya caste, 136
Kshatriyas, 3
Religious speculations of, 85, 114
Occupations of, 232, 233
Kshema, queen of Bimbisara, admitted to
the order of Buddhist nuns, 296
Kumarila, argument of, 167-168
Bhatta, Hindu philosopher, 269
Kundagrama identified with Buddhist
Kotigrama, 323
Kuru country divided, 106-106
Kurukshetra, battle of, 109
Kurus, known also as Bharatas, a Hindu
nation, 84, 100
Entry into the Doab, 83
Provenience of, a mooted question, 98
And Panchalas centre of the Hindu
world, 99
Kusa, son of Sita and Rama, 123
Kusinagara, place of Buddha's death, 301
Kutsa, a warrior, 33
L
Lakshmana, son of Sumitra, 119
Accompanies his half-brother Rama
into exile, 120
Lakshmi, 76
Lalita Vistara, poem of the Northern
Buddhists, 280
Lanka besieged by a non-Aryan army, 122
Lava, son of Sita and Rama, 123
Law as laid down in the Brihadaranyaka
Upanishad, 155
Of property, 225
Of inheritance, 227-229
Varied in severity according to castes,
220, 221
Agrarian, passage from Apastamba on,
223
Agrarian, passage from Gautama on,
223-224
Usury, of ancient India, 226
Learning, branches of, in the Brahmanic
and Epic periods, 167-168
Legends, development of Puranic, from
poets of the Rig- Veda, 25
Lichchhavis, nation of ancient India, 284
Literature, ancient Hindu, 2
Brahmana, 88
Lord of the Field, hymn to, 13-14
Lunar asterisms, enumerated, 167
M
Madhava, legend of king, 113
Magadha, Hinduized, 184
Kingdom of, 284
Jain council of, 226
Magadhas, explained as a caste, 231
Mahabharata, Sanskrit epic, 83
Description of Kuru-Panchala war in, 98
Lessons of the, 111