Abdagases, 29 ’Abdullah, (1) of Cairo, 76; (2) of Gulkanda, 84 Abū-l-faẓl, 91, 92 Abū-l-Ḥasan of Gulkanda, 84 ’Ādil Shāhī kings, 84 _’Adl_, 72 _’Adlī_, 73 Agathokleia, 27 Agathokles, 20, 24, 26 Āgra (Akbarābād), 89, 93ff Ahichhatra, 20 Aḥmadābād, 87, 88, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98 Aḥmadnagar, 84, 87, 88 Aḥmad Shāh I, (1) Bahmanī, 83; (2) of Gujarāt, 87, 88 Aḥmad Shāh Durrānī, 106 Ahom language, 101 Ahoms, 100, 101 Aḥsanābād (Kulbarga), 83 Ajmer, 53, 96, 98 Akbar, 81, 86, 89ff, 100, 102 Akbar II, 98 Akbarnagar, 95, 98 ’Ālamgīr II, 65 ’Ālam Shāh of Dehlī, 76 ’Alāu-d-dīn Aḥmad II (Bahmanī), 83, 84 ’Alāu-d-dīn Ḥasan Bahmanī, 83 ’Alāu-d-dīn Ḥusain Shāh of Bengal, 79, 80 ’Alāu-d-dīn Mas’ūd, 70, 71 ’Alāu-d-dīn Muḥammad, 62, 70, 72, 83 ’Alāu-d-dīn Sikandar Shāh of Ma’bar, 82 Alexander, 23 ’Alī II of Bījāpūr, 84 ’Alī Rāja, 66 Altamsh, 70 Amīr Barīd of Bīdar, 84 Amṛitapāla of Budāyūn, 53 Amritsar, 107 Anandgarh, 107 Anantavarman Choḍaganga, 60 Andhras, 21, 58, 62 Aṅśuvarman, 38 Antialkidas, 24, 27 Antimachos, 24 Apollodotos, 24, 26, 27, 29, 31 Apollophanes, 27 Arabic, 69, 70, 72, 80, 82 Arachosia, 24 Arcot (Arkāt), 58, 103 Ardokhsho, 36, 41 Ariāna, 24 Arsakes, 23 Āṣafnagar, 108 Asalla-deva of Narwar, 54 Asīrgarh, 95 Aśoka, 17, 19 Asparvarma, 24, 29 Assam, 80, 100, 101 Aśvamedha, 41, 42, 44 Athro, 36 Augustus, 17, 34, 58n Aurangābād, 99 Aurangzeb, 92ff _Aureus_, 34, 58n Awadh (Oudh), 108, 109 Ayodhyā, 19, 20, 43 Azes I, 24, 28, 29; II, 29 Azilises, 28 ’Az̤īmu-sh-shān, 97 Bābur, 77 Bacchanalian Muhars, 96 Bactria, 23ff Bādāmī, 59 Bag̱ẖdād, khalifs of, 70, 79 Bahādur Shāh, (1) of Gujarāt, 86, 87, 88; (2) Mug̱ẖal, 98 Bahāwalpūr, 16, 37 Bahmanī dynasty, 83ff, 87 _Bahlolī_, 77 Bahlol Lodī, 76, 77, 85 Bairāt, 93 Baḵẖ̱tiyār, Ḵẖ̱iljī, 78 Bālāpūr, 65 Ballāḷa II, 60 Banāras (Benares), 103n, 108 Bangalūr, 105 Bārbak Shāh, 85 Barelī, 99, 104, 108 Baroda, 104, 109 Barter, 13 Bāz Bahādur, 86 Bedār Baḵẖ̱t, 97 Bednūr, 65 Bengal, 48, 52, 78ff, 92, 100, 103 Bengālī script, 101 Berār, 83 Bhatgāon, 102 Bhoja-deva of Kanauj, 52 Bhonsla rājas, 104 Bihār, 49, 85, 90, 92 Bījāpūr, 84 Bīkāner, 104 Billon, 21n, 55, 68, 71 Bombay, 103 Brahmī, 19n British Museum, 82n, 85, 95 Buddha, 36, 38, 39 Budhagupta, 47 Bull and Horseman type, 50, 53, 72 Bundelkhand, 53 Burhānābād, 84 Burma, 100 Buxar, battle of, 103