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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