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