Pacem, in Sumatra, Portuguese treaty with (1511), v6.p148
Pacheco, a Portuguese hero, v4.p64
Pacheco, Duarte, Portuguese captain
Death of, v6.p91
Victories of, at Cochin and Quilon, v6.p90, v6.p92, v6.p140
Pachisi, played with living pieces at Akbar’s court, v4.pp36–37
Padaria, see Rummindei, v2.p148
Padmanabha, an outcast Brahman, the informant of Roger, v9.p237
Padmavati, locality in Orissa, Mohammad Taghlak and his army hunt elephants in, v3.p148
Padre Santo, burial-place of Europeans at Agra, v4.p89
Pahlava, tribe, v2.p191, v2.p380
Painting
Akbar’s interest in, v4.pp37–38
Indian, Persian, Chinese, and Christian, v4.pp37–89, v4.p133
Jahangir’s interest in, v4.p133
Paisacha marriage, v1.p239
Paithan, capital of Pulumayi II, v2.p194
Paiva, Affonso de, travels of, v6.p60
Pakka, Jahangir marches through, on the way to Kabul, v5.p309
Pala dynasty of Bengal, v2.p343
Palace, description of, in the sutras, v1.p208
Palakka (Palakkada), a Pallava principality, v2.p382
Palestine, trade-route through, v6.p3, v6.p4
Palghatcherry = Palakka
Pali, language, v2.p146
Paliacatta (Pulicat), conflicts of castes at, v9.pp242–243
Palibothra (modern Patna), a city of India, v9.p5
Shape and size of, v9.p28
Defences of, v9.p28
Palibothros, surname of the king of Palibothra, v9.p28
Palijs, a sub-caste of the Sudras, v9.p243, v9.p245
Palla, the meanest of the sub-castes of the Sudras, v9.p246
Pallava, origin and history, v2.p191, v2.p380
Palli, caste, v2.p392
Palmyra, reasons leading to the destruction of, v8.p3
Palmyra, trade emporium, v6.p6, v6.p10, v6.p15
Palos, a Buddhist dynasty, v3.p23
Pamirs
Aryan migration across, v2.p23
Crossed by Hiuen Tsang, v2.p315
Panch Mahal, palatial cloister at Akbar’s court, v4.p37
Pan-ch’ao, Chinese general, v2.p224, v2.p231
Panchala kingdom, the, in 1400 B.C., v1.p99
Panchalas, a nation of ancient India, v1.p82
Provenience of, a mooted question, v1.p98
Entry into the Doab, v1.p83
Settlement of, near the modern Kanouj, v1.p98
And Kurus, centre of the Hindu world, v1.p99
Panda, grandson of Santanu, v1.p100
Pandava princes, five, v1.pp104–105
Alliance of, with Drupada, v1.p106
Believed to have invaded Bengal and Ceylon, v1.p110
Disguised as Brahmans, v1.p104
First exile of, v1.p103
Go to Hastinapura, v1.p110
House of the, burnt, v1.p104
In thirteenth year of exile take service under the king of Virata, v1.p108
Military campaigns of, v1.p106
Princes, exhibition of skill in the use of arms, v1.p104
Princes, slaves of Duryodhana, v1.p107
Princes, the five, wed Draupadi, v1.p109
Refuse to fight with Karna, v1.p103
Second exile of, v1.p107
Send an envoy to Hastinapura to claim back their kingdom, v1.p109
Pandion, an Indian king, v9.p3
According to some authorities sends presents and embassies to Augustus Cesar, v9.p3
Pandoi (Pandyas), Hindu nation, v1.p206
Pandu, sons of, v2.p22
Panduah, renamed Firozabad by Firoz Shah, v3.p161, v3.p173
Capital of Bengal, v3.p173
Pandya, a Hindu kingdom, v1.p203
Pandya, limits of country, v2.p365
History of kingdom, v2.pp365–70
Pandyas, kingdom of, v1.p185
History of, v1.pp206–207
Panini, Sanskrit grammarian, v1.p193
Panipat, a famous battlefield of India, v3.p67, v3.p84, v4.p2, v4.p4
Plain of, reached by Timur, v3.p166
Battle between Ibrahim and Babar on the plains of, v2.pp205–208
Timur’s preparations at, v5.p194
Timur encamps at, v5.p196
Babar’s army makes strong fortifications at, v5.pp252–254
Battle between Afghans and Marathas at, in 1761, v4.pp184–188, v4.p251, v4.p266
Overthrow of the Marathas at, v8.pp194–197
Panipur, a village ten leagues from Kashmir, v5.p305
Panjab, a district
Annexation of the, v8.p417
Artists in the, v4.p37
Aryan settlements in, v1.p4
Becomes a Moslem province, v3.p61
Changes in rivers of, v2.p79
Colonized by Aryans, v1.p97
In possession of Sikandar Sur, v3.p241
Irrigation by means of wells in, v1.p15
Last refuge of Mahmud’s descendants, v3.p61
Province of India, v3.p18, v3.p22
Recovered by the Hindus from Babar, v3.p204
Seven rivers of the, v1.p49
Subject to Akbar, v4.p2
Under the later Moghuls, v4.p177, v4.p14, v4.p183, v4.p184
Panjah, collision of Afghans and Russians at, v8.p484
Panjim, v6.p135
Pantaleon, Indo-Greek king, v2.p203
Pantheists, Indian, represented at Akbar’s court, v4.p36
Pantheon, Hindu, adopted and modified by Buddha, v1.pp308–309
Papal influence on trade during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, v6.p59, v6.pp63–67, v6.p85, v6.p95, v6.pp115–117, v6.pp167–168, v6.pp193–197
Paper introduced into Europe, v2.p325
Paramara, dynasty of Malwa, v2.p341
Paramardi (Parmal), Chandella king, v2.p336
Parantaka I, Chola king, v2.p368
Paras Deo Dalvi, raja of Bandri, vassal of Ala-ad-din, v5.p147
Parasurama, legend of, v1.p117
Parganas, districts divided as fiscal units, v4.p31
Parhalah, fortress of Tatar Gakkar, v5.p229
Strong position of fort of, v5.pp231–232
Pariahs (Perreaes), outcasts, rules governing, v9.pp247–249
Parihar rule in Bundelkhand, v2.p336
Parikshit, father of Janamejaya, v1.p132
Paris, Peace of, in 1763, terminates the French rivalry in India, v8.p155
Parishads, schools, v1.p144
Parliament
Acts of, v8.p297
Hostile attitude of, toward the East India Company, v7.pp188–189
Inquires into the affairs of the East India Company, v8.pp221–222, v8.p226, v8.p274, v8.p275
Parliamentary campaigns of 1783–1784, v8.pp278–279
Summons of brief, in 1640, v7.p186
Parnel, Portuguese attack, v6.p142
Paropamisadai, a tribe of Kabulistan and Afghanistan, v9.p7
Paropanisadai, satrapy, v2.p108
Paropanisos = Hindu Kush, or Indian Caucasus, v2.p108
Parthalis, capital of the Kalingoi, v1.p206
Parthia proper, v2.p198
Parthian early history, v2.p199
King, Gondophares, v2.p207
War of Kanishka, v2.p231
Parthians, the custom of giving a surname found among the, v9.pp28–29
Particularity, category of, in Vaisesika philosophy, v1.p266
Parvana, a rite performed on new and full moon days, v1.p248
Parvata, v1.p132
Parviz, son of Jahangir, v4.p84
Pasenda, a sect of the Brahmans, v9.pp259–261
Pasturage in Early India, v1.p17
Patala, a city in Patalene, v9.p26
Patala, city, capital of Patalene, v2.p91, v2.p92
Patalene, v2.p90
The land about the delta of the Indus, v9.pp5–6, v9.p8, v9.p24, v9.p26
Conquered by Alexander, v9.p25
Pataliputra = Patna, v2.p110, v2.p144, v4.p76
Animal hospital at, v2.p164
Asoka’s capital, v2.p143
Capital of the Prachyas, v1.p204
Council at, v1.p319
District in Magadha, v2.p25
Footprints of Buddha at, v2.p308
Foundation of, v2.p34
Free hospital at, v2.p268
Massacre of English prisoners at, v8.p187
Metropolis of India for nearly a thousand years, v1.p299, v2.p110
Municipal administration in Maurya age of, v2.p116
Rebuilt by Sher Shah, v2.p266
Patan, Asoka’s capital of Nepal, v2.p140
Patanjali, extracts from, v9.pp155–157, v9.pp167–168
Patanjali, founder of Yoga philosophy, v1.pp257–258
Patans (Pathans), Turko-Afghan adventurers, v3.p95
Patans
Under Ahmad Shah, v4.p187
Under Aurangzib, v4.p135, v4.p139
Patiala, city of the Panjab, ruled by Hindu rajas, v3.p173
Patna, see Pataliputra
Patnouwa, a sub-caste of the Sudras, v9.p245
Patricius, v6.p24
Paul, St., compared with Asoka, v2.p172
Paulkasas, explained as a caste, v1.p231
Peacock Throne, v4.p106, v4.p123
Estimated value of the, v4.p180
Picture of the, v4.p181
Peacock Throne
Description of, v5.pp323–327
In Teheran, authenticity of, questioned, v5.p323
Peacocks, Indian origin of, v6.p8
Pearl trade, v2.p364
Peasants, under Aurangzib, v4.p141
Pedro, Prince of Portugal, traveller, v6.p42, v6.p200
Pegu
Anglo-Indian campaign against, v8.p390
Annexation of, v8.p419
Pegu, Portuguese soldier proclaimed king of, v6.p163
Peithon, son of Agenor, v2.p90, v2.p104
Penal code of Chandragupta. Maurya, v2.p120
Penkevell, Richard, receives a grant for trade with China and the Spice Islands, v7.p10
Pepper trade of Malabar, v2.p364
Pepper
Albuquerque secures trade of, on the Malabar coast (1511), v6.p126
Buying and selling prices of, v7.p3
Dutch raise the price of, against the English (1599), v6.p221
Lancaster’s trade in (1594), v6.p193
One of the cheaper spices as distinguished from the more precious spices of the Eastern Archipelago, v6.p105
Portuguese offer to supply the Turks with, in exchange for wheat (1541), v6.p110
Portuguese royal monopoly of, at Quilon (1520), v6.p123
Portuguese trade in, v6.p151
Warrants to restrain the sale of, in England, until the royal share was disposed of, v6.p238
Pera, v6.p19
Perdikkas, general, v2.p43
Perkins, William, works of, sent out to India (1611), v6.p255
Perreaes, see Pariahs
Persepolis, an ancient capital of Persia, v4.p93
Persia
As a Mediterranean power, v6.p9
Conquered by Arabs, v3.p4
Embassies between India and, v2.p352
Hun attacks on, v2.p285
Negotiations with the Shah of, v8.p396
Papal embassy to Tartar chief in, v6.p36
Prince Akbar fled to, v4.p149
Saracens in, v3.p2
Shah of, attacks Herat, v8.p397, v8.p398
Shah of, begs help of France to drive the Portuguese from the East Indies, v7.p40
Turks in, v3.p17
Persian
Adherents of Aurangzib, v4.p125
Chaldean and Saban trade on the, v6.p3, v6.p4
Chronicles of the Moghul court, v4.p53
Combat with a lion, v2.p265
Influence on India, v2.p126, v2.p145, v2.p214, v2.p243
Language, v4.p29, v4.p30, v4.p62, v4.p163
Philosophers, v4.p33
Princess, Aurangzib marries a, v4.p138
Religion, v2.p310
Style of Asoka’s pillars, v2.p145
The prevailing language in Ahmadabad, v9.p297
Vizir, v4.p110
Wife (Nur Jahan) of Jahangir, v4.p80, v4.p81
Wife of Akbar, v4.p15
Persian Gulf
Indian trade byway of the, v6.p2, v6.p29, v6.p78, v6.p151
Shipment of goods by the, v4.p64
Portuguese struggle for and command of the, v6.pp100–102, v6.pp104–113, v6.pp123–125, v6.p132, v6.pp146–147, v6.p151
Persians
Invasion of India by the, v4.pp180–181
Kandahar taken by the, v4.p108
Overtures of, to Napoleon, v8.pp349–350
Replace Arabs in public office, v3.p16
Peshawar = Purushapura, v2.p229
Conquered by Ghiyas-ad-din, v5.p81
Conquered by Mohammad Ghori in 1179, v3.p54
Given to Sher Khan Afghan, v5.p315
Taken by Mahmud of Ghazni, v3.p19
Peshrau Khan, a general of Akbar, v4.p198
Peshwa at Poona attacks the British Residency, v8.p380
Annexations attendant on the surrender of the, v8.p381
Pestilence follows famine in India, v7.p207
Pet, North-eastern expedition of, and discovery of the straits bearing his name (1580), v6.p188
Petition of Right, v7.p164
Pettapoli (modern Nizampatam)
Abandoned by the English in 1621, v7.p221
Hippon lands at, and founds the first English settlement on the Bay of Bengal, v7.p220
Resettled by the English in 1633, v7.p221
Peukelaotis = Charsadda, v2.p43, v2.p51
Peukestas, defended Alexander, v2.p85
Peukolaitis, a city of India, v9.p18
Peutingerian Tables, quoted, v6.p78, v6.p200
Phaedra, folk-lore tale of, v2.p176
Pharaoh Necho, early maritime explorations of, v6.p47
Pharro, the fire-god, v2.p241
Phasis, trade emporium, v6.p14, v6.p16
Pheasant brought from Phasis, v6.p14
Philip II, of Spain
Attempts of, to fortify the Straits of Magellan, v6.p192
Attitude toward the St. Thomas Christians, v7.pp42–43
Destruction of Armada of, throws open the ocean route to the East, v6.p197, v6.p205, v6.p209
Forbids Dutch vessels to trade with Spain and ruins Antwerp, v6.pp206–207
Sends the Spanish Armada against England (1588), v6.pp192–193
Union of Spain and Portugal under, and its effect on European policy (1580), v6.p190, v6.p191, v6.p205, v6.p209
Wages war against the Dutch in the East (1597–1598), v6.p218
Philippa of England, wife of John I of Portugal
Life and influence of, v6.pp41–43
Tomb of, v6.p42, v6.pp46–47
Philippines
Magellan killed at the (1521), v6.p169
Spanish-Portuguese right to the, v6.p226
Philippos, satrap of countries west of the Indus, v2.p77
Murdered, v2.p98
Philosophers
Strabo’s description of Indian, based on the statements of Megasthenes, v9.pp47–52
Account of, by Onesikritos, v9.pp57–58
Philosophic period, summary of, v1.p273
Philosophy
Its debt to the Kshatriya caste, v1.p85
Mimamsa, v1.p268
Nyaya, v1.pp262–264
Purva Mimamsa, v1.pp268–270
SankIlya, v1.pp254–257, v1.p268, v1.p271
Six schools of Hindu, v1.pp194–196
Uttara Mimamsa, v1.pp268–269
Vaisesika v1.pp264–266, v1.p271
Vedanta, v1.p195, v1.pp268–273
Yoga, v1.pp258–261, v1.p271
Phoenicians, v6.p3
Alphabet of the, v6.p4
Command the outlets of the Syrian trade-route, v6.p4, v6.pp5–8, v6.p10, v6.p21
Phonetics, science of, v1.p192
Physicians, the second class of the Garmanes, customs of the, v9.pp50–52
Pierre Both, a mountain in Mauritius named after Pieter Both, v7.p79
Piety, law of, v2.p153, v2.p163
Pilgrimage
Of Akbar to Ajmir after founding the Divine Faith, v4.p43
Of Akbar to famous shrines, v4.p34
Of faithful Mohammedans to Mecca and Medina, v4.p122
Pilgrims, Buddhist, v2.p13
Pilgrims, tax on, abolished, v4.p16, v4.p27
Pillar edicts of Asoka, v2.p139, v2.p147, v2.p149
Pillar of victory set up at Chitor, v3.p182
Pillars of Asoka, v2.p144
Pindapitri-yajna, sacrifice to departed ancestors, v1.p162
Ceremony of, v1.pp166–166
Pindar, Sir Paul
Diamonds of, used by Buckingham to fit out Prince Charles for his wooing trip to Madrid, v7.p180
Early life of, v7.p180
Great fortune of, v7.p180
Loans of, to King Charles I, v7.pp180–181
Partner of Courten in his adventures, v7.p179, v7.p180
Piprawa, oldest known inscription at, v2.p17
Pir Mohammad Jahangir
Report of, to Timur, regarding position of Hindustan, v5.pp180–183
A commander of the right wing of Timur’s army, v5.p206
Pir Mohammad, grandson of Timur, besieges Mahan in 1397, v3.p165
Piratas, a name applied to the English by the Portuguese, v6.p67
Pirates, all intruders beyond Lisbon to the south treated as, v6.p201
Pisa and the Syrian trade-route, v6.p12
Pitakas, sacred books of the Buddhists, v1.pp281–282
Date of, v1.p281
Said to have been reduced to writing about 88 B.C., v1.p321
Pithora Rai = Prithivi Raja, v2.p330
Pitt, first Ministry of, v8.p279
India Act of, passed, v8.p279
Plague, presence of, in England in 1602–1603, v7.p3
Plants of ancient India, v1.p217
Plassey, battle of, in 1757, v7.p253
Plassy, rout of, v8.p167, v8.p168, v8.p169
Plays, Sanskrit
Inscribed on tables of stone at Ajmir, v2.p16
Ascribed to Harsha, v2.p303
Pleiades, a constellation, v9.p7
Plutarch, mention of suttee by, v9.pp72–73
Point de Galle, description of, by William Francklin, v9.pp314–317
Poison, Hindu ordeal by, v9.p147
Political life, decadence of, in India, v1.p3
Pollock, General, recaptures Kabul, v8.p403
Poll-tax (jizya), remitted by Akbar, v4.p15, v4.p16, v4.p27
Revived by Aurangzib, v4.p147, v4.p148, v4.p149
Polo, a favourite sport in ancient India and Persia, v3.p72
Polo, Marco, the Elder, will of, v6.pp17–18
The Younger, travels and works of, v6.p37, v6.p58, v6.p199
Polo, played by Akbar, v4.p10
Polyandry unknown in ancient India, v1.p154
Polygamy, v1.p154
Allowed among kings and rich people in Vedic times, v1.p57
Pompey, v6.pp10–11
Pondicherri
Besieged by the English, v8.p107
Fortified by Dupleix, v8.p101
Founded by Francois Martin in 1674, v8.pp91–92
Recovered by the Dutch in 1697, v8.p73
Shelters the Mohammedan princes in 1740, v8.p100
Strongly fortified, v8.p99
Surrendered to the English in 1761, v8.p147
The seat of the Governor-General of all the French settlements, v8.p91
Ponds
Description of the construction of the sacred, v9.p197
Sacred Hindu, reasons for the sanctity of, v9.p198
Pontoon constructed across the Ganges, v3.p216
Pontos, Sesostris conducts an army to, v9.p4
Poona, a district and town in the Bombay Presidency, v4.p163, v4.pp240–275
Pope, Kausuh al-Ghuri vainly appeals to the, against the Portuguese in India, v3.p184
Poros (nephew of above), taken prisoner by Alexander, v9.p22
Poros
(2) Nephew of (1), v2.p68
King of Indian provinces east of the Hydaspes river, v9.p3
According to some authorities sends presents and embassies to Augustus Caesar, v9.p3
Situation and size of the country of, v9.p20
Porter, Endymion
Accompanies King Charles to Spain, v7.p182
Acts as go-between to the court and the Company, v7.p182
Appointed groom of King Charles’s bedchamber, v7.p182
East India Company’s fruitless petition to Parliament against, v7.pp186–187
Marries niece of Buckingham, v7.p182
Portrait of, in the National Portrait Gallery, v7.p182
Taken into partnership by Courten and Pindar, v7.pp181–182
Portikanos, an Indian prince whose territory lay near the Indus, v9.p25
Porto Novo
Battle of, v8.p252
Defeat of Hyder Ali at, v8.p256
Porto Santo, Portuguese discovery of (1418–1420), v6.p32
Portugal
Activity of, in establishing her power in India, v8.p5
African Company, formation of the, v6.pp154–155
Armada withdrawn from the attack on Downton, v7.p52
Army and navy in Asia (sixteenth century), v6.pp139–151, v6.p163
Asiatic empire divided into three governments, v7.p57
Attempted blockade of, v7.p51
Buccaneers in the narrow seas, in the Bay of Bengal and Canton, v6.pp165–166
Capture Goa (1510), v6.p116, v6.p132
Command the Persian Gulf by means of Ormuz, v7.p55
Commercial activity of, crushed by her annexation to Spain in 1580, v8.pp6–7
Conflict with England, regarding Eastern possessions, v7.pp34–35
Control of Indian commerce, v4.p64
Cromwell enforces English liberty of trade in the East Indies upon, v7.p277
Crusading spirit and conversion form
Crusading spirit of the, in Africa and India, v6.pp38–44, v6.pp54–60, v6.pp71–73, v6.pp80–82, v6.p95, v6.pp107–111, v6.pp116–117, v6.pp118–119, v6.p162, v6.p208
Decline of the power of, in India, v7.p29
Decline of the power of, in the East, v7.pp53–57
Decline of, v8.p23
Defeated by Best off Suwali, v7.pp25–27
Defeated by the Maniinks in the Arabian Sea, v3.p184
Defeated in November, 1620, in the Persian Gulf, v7.p55
Defensive alliance with the Dutch formed against, v7.p71
Disorderly life of the, in Bengal, v9.p291
Don Antonio, a claimant for, encouraged in England (1581), v6.p191
Eastern position of, at the beginning of the eighteenth century, v8.p90
English alliances with, v6.pp39–43
English and Dutch fleets join against, in 1602, v7.p75
Establish a factory at Diu, v3.p185
Established on the west coast of India in 1510, v9.p227
Fatalities in battle off Suwali, v7.pp28–29
Fleet, strength of, in 1614–15, v7.pp47–48
Forced to invade India, v3.p184
Fortresses in India, v4.p64
Galleons, destruction of, v7.p50
Galleys and caravels the scourge of the Eastern routes, v7.p39
Give Governor of Manila warrant to trade with the English, v7.p45
Heroic age of, under the House of Aviz, v6.pp39–173, v6.pp200–203
India, Almeida first viceroy of (1505–1509), v6.pp93–103
Indian trade of, dwindles after hzoi: union with Spain, v7.p44
Jesuits at Jahangir’s court, v4.p60, v4.p61
Kill Bahadur, king of Gujarat, v3.p185
Loss in battle on Jan. 20, 1615, v7.p50
Make three more fruitless attacks on the English, v7.pp51–52
Makes Antwerp her Northern European entrepôt for Indian produce, v6.pp202–203
Medieval position of, in Europe, v6.p39, v6.p208
Missionaries in India, v4.p44, v4.p62, v4.p100
Monopolizes Indian trade for a short time, v8.pp6–7
Native alliances and treaties of, v6.pp83–84, v6.pp119–133
Native troops employed by, v6.p91, v6.pp140–144
Native troops employed by, long before the time of Dupleix, v6.p149
part of the policy of, v6.p91, v6.pp116–120
Pirates, v4.p120
Piratical methods of the, against Moslems, v6.pp151–153
Policy in Asia (1500–1600), v6.pp135–166
Position of, in India, v7.pp218–219
Possessions in India, v4.p164
Poverty of, in Indian territories, v7.p36, v7.p39
Power in India, v4.p55, v4.p70, v4.p71, v4.p73, v4.p144
Prevent the English from landing at Surat in 1611, v7.p25
Prince Henry of, v6.pp43–44, v6.pp49–56
Prohibit shipbuilding in west-coast Indian ports, v6.p131
Protect the Nestorian St. Thomas Christians, v6.pp90–91, v6.p123, v6.p128
Quest for the Christian land of Prester John, v6.pp59–61, v6.pp108–109
Quest for, and monopoly of, the Cape route to India, v6.pp44–73
Refused a truce by the Governor of Surat, v7.pp50–51
Religious activity of, v7.p42
Religious toleration of, v6.p123, v6.p128
Resolve to convert St. Thomas Christians into Catholics, v7.p41
Rewards Timoja, v6.p133
Routed by Best in two further encounters, v7.p28
Rule, conquest and conversion the basis of, in Africa, v6.p38, v6.p39, v6.pp42–44, v6.p54, v6.p55, v6.p56, v6.pp59–60
Rule, conquest and conversion the basis of, in the East, v6.pp71–73, v6.p81, v6.pp85–87, v6.pp95–96, v6.pp107–109, v6.p111, v6.pp116–117, v6.pp118–119, v6.pp121–122
Shipbuilding of the, in India, v6.p145
Sphere of influence and coast line of, v6.p113, v6.pp145–148
Struggle of, with Islam for the Indian Seas (1500–1600), v6.pp74–112
Struggle with Spain in the East, and Convention of Saragossa (1529), v6.pp168–173
Survivors from Ormuz sent to Goa, v7.p56
System of colonization, v6.p142, v6.pp164–165
System of slave labour, v6.p136, v6.p141, v6.p144
Territorial power established by Albuquerque in the East, (1503), v6.pp89–91, (1509–15), v6.pp98–112
Threaten the seacoast of the Moghul Empire, v7.p205
Thrice repulsed by Downton’s men aboard the Hope, v7.p49
Trade and treaties on the Malabar coast, v6.pp74–85
Trade with England, v6.pp202–203, v6.p204
Trade with India, v4.p54, v4.p143
Treaty of, with Holland in 1641, v7.p65
Union of Spain and (1580), v6.p170, v6.p172, v6.p190
Union with Spain, v7.p57
Porus, a king of India, v3.p15
Prabhakasa-vardhana, Raja of Thanesar, v2.p294
Prabodha-chandrodaya, drama, v2.p336
Prachyas
The most powerful nation in the fourth century B.C., v1.p204
Boundary of, v1.pp205–206
Pradyumna, son of Vishnu, directions for constructing an idol of, v9.p179
Prajapati, his part in creation, v1.pp167–168
Prajapatya marriage, v1.p239
Prakasaditya, title of Puragupta, v2.p283
Prakrit, language, v2.p146
Pramnai (Buddhists), subdivisions and customs of the, v9.pp64–65
Prasii (Prasioi), nation, v2.p38
Prasioi, the most distinguished tribe of India, v9.p28
Pratisakhyas, v1.p192
Prayaga, Harsha’s assembly at, v2.p312
Prayaga, sacred tree of, v9.pp190–191
Prayer, public, said in the mosque on April 27, 1526, in the name of Babar, v3.p208
Pregnancy, rites of, v1.p246
Presents, system of annual, to the king, beginnings of, v3.p164
Prester John, land of (Abyssinia)
Albuquerque’s scheme to conquer the land of, v6.pp103–104
Portuguese expeditions to discover, v6.pp60–61
Priestly caste, rise of the, v1.pp83–84
Priests, professional, v1.p5, v1.p77
And kings become separate castes in the Epic Age, v1.p136
And soldiers mingle and intermarry with the people, v1.p150
Divisions of, v1.pp86–87
Sacrificial duties, v1.p86
Studied nature, v1.p78
Printing in Holland, v6.p200
Prisni, the storm cloud, v1.p72
Prithivi Raja, Chauhan, v2.p330, v2.p339
Prithivi Raja, chief of the Chohan dynasty, v3.p55
Takes Sirhind, v3.p67
Defeated and killed by Mohammad Ghori, v3.p58, v3.p70
Priyadarsika, drama, v2.p304
Problems, in Nyaya philosophy, v1.p263
Proof, in Nyaya philosophy, v1.pp262–263
Propertius, a Latin poet, writes of suttee, v9.pp73–74
Protectorates, theory of the system of, v8.pp469–471
System of, adopted by other European nations in Asia and Africa, v8.p489
Provinces from Bhira and Lahore to Bahraich and Bihar contribute revenue to Babar, v3.p221
Psammetichus, King, opens out Indo-Egyptian trade, v6.pp20–21
Ptolemaic system of cosmography, v6.p200
Ptolemy Philadelphus, extension of Indo-Egyptian trade under, v6.p20, v6.pp21–22
Ptolemy
(1) son of Lagos, v2.p13, v2.p51
(2) Philadelphos, v2.p166
Pudukottai, town, v2.p363, v2.p365, v2.p391
Pukara, legend of the cause of the holiness of, v9.p199
Pularoon, natives of
Bribed not to trade with the English, v7.p75
Bought by the United Joint Stock, v7.p285
Dutch expel the English from, in 1621–1622, v7.p113
Factories in, turned over to the Joint Stock, v7.p287
Restored to the English, v7.p155, v7.p261
Surrendered to the English, v7.p90
Pulicat, chief port of South-eastern India, v7.p10
Dutch settle at, in 1609, v7.p219
English land at, in 1620, but leave in 1623, v7.p220
English to have free trade at, v7.p93
Pulicat, conflicts of castes at, v9.pp242–243
Pulikesi
(I), Chalukya king, v2.p351
(II) Chalukya king, v2.p301, v2.pp351–353
Pulipula (identified with Phulpada, the old sacred part of Surat), trade of, mentioned by Ptolemy in 150 B.C., v7.p193
Pulumayi (II), (III), Andhra kings, v2.p193, v2.p195
Punishment after death, Hindu beliefs regarding, v9.pp273–276
Puragupta, history of, v2.p282
Puranas, eighteen, v2.p11
Date of, v2.p279
Puranic legends, development of, from the myths of the Rig-Veda, v1.p25
Puritan emperor, a term used to describe Aurangzib, v4.pp121–144
Purnavarman, the last descendant of Asoka, v2.p177, v2.p308
Puru Jaipal, Hindu raja
Encamps on the banks of the Rahib, v5.p74
Enters into an alliance with Bhoj Chand, v5.p72
Makes peace with Chand Rai, v5.p71
Sues for Chand Rai’s daughter in marriage for his son Bhimpal, v5.p71
Purusha, v1.p176
Purushapura, capital of Kanishka, v2.p229
Pushan, au Aditya, v1.p69
Hymn to, v1.pp17–18
Sun-god of the shepherds, v1.p70
Pushpamitra, king of Kashmir, v1.p321
Pushpapura = Pataliputra, v2.p34
Pushyabhuti, ancestor of Harsha, v2.p306
Pushyagupta, brother-in-law of Chandragupta Maurya, v2.p122
Pushyamitra
(1) Sunga king, v2.pp178–85
(2) Nation, v2.p280
Pyrard de Laval, Francois, a French traveller in India, v9.p280
Arrives at Chartican, in Bengal, and is presented to the governor, v9.p280, v9.p283
Pyrard de Laval, voyage of, v4.p65, v4.p56
Pythagoras, similarity of the doctrines of, to those of the Hindus, v9.p57
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