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 Aryo-Dravidian, one of the Risley's racial zones, 168.

Ascetic, can approach wife, 50; cannot be made a witness, 134.

Ashoka, his death, events after his death, 34, 65.

Ashrama, duties for four ash, to be treated by a dharma writer, 45.

Ashyalāyana Grihya Sūtra, on ceremonial for a student, 132

Asia, western, knowledge of the Hindus of, 69.

Assault, rules to decide cases of assault, stated and interpreted, 155-6.

Assimilation, caste a difficulty for assimilation, 4; assimilation of foreigners in the third century, 37; contrast between past and present and a discussion of causes, 87. [See Intermarriage.]

Astronomy, Garga's work, 42; ast, regarded as sacred, 52; astronomical reasons for selecting a wife, 73.

Asura, a form of marriage consisting of purchase of bride tolerated in Shứdras only, 145.

Author of the text, his date and place, TO, 62-72; his motives, 53-4, 156; his personal character, 72; author and Bengal, 102, TOO, TIS; no advocate of Purda, 154. See Dharma writers.]

Authorship of a theory regarding origin of a particular caste, 85.

Austeritics [see Tapas], their function, 61; capacity for purification, 120.

Ayogava, a caste, its occupation, 104.

Babylon (Baveru), commercial relations with, 40.

Bactria, its history, 36.

Banks, their scarcity in early India, 39.

Bāna, author of Kadanlari and Harshacharita, his use in fixing the date of Mannsinriti, 63.

Barber, his place in the system of excommunication, and in gradation of castes, 25.

Bath (see Purification) as means for purification, 6.

Baverit, same as Babylon, 40. Baudhavana, wrote his dharma book in Sūtra style, 47; on the sacredness and impurity of localities, 71, II8; on" mixed castes," 84; his speculation regarding Ambashthas, value of his statement corroborating the one of Manava text, 130; his rules regarding sacraments, 132, on inheritance, 139; on adultery, 148. Bengal. Hypergamy in its worst form prevails in Bengal. 17: Brāhmanas willing to drink water from Shūdra in Bengal, 23; clean castes in Bengal, 24: identificatiou of castes mentioned in the text with prescnt castes in Bengal, 67; Bengalis with Mongoloid features have great pretensions to Aryan blood, 78; Bengal Rrahmanas not recognized as Br., 91; Ben. Br. objection to be considered as natives, 118; Bengal customs reflected in the text, 109, 118: Bengalese the only probable nonCaucasians in India, 169; Bengali literature, 126,