The History of India from the Earliest Ages, Volume 3

Trübner, 1874

CHAPTER I	1

Surveillance of trade and manufactures	2

Sacrifices	4

their Brahmanical character	7

Dravidian religion	14

Different religious ideas	20

Ideas of death and immortality	25

Custom as regards childless widows	31

Fatal mistake of the heroine	297

Preparations for the execution	304

Plot against plot	310

The Gandharva marriage	316

Intrigues of the Buddhist nun	322

The Rajpoots the old military aristocracy of India	326

The tragic end	332

Chittore recovered by Hamir	338

Gamblingmatch	37

Appointment of Little Raja or heirapparent	43

The great council	49

Three stages of Aryan invasion	55

Hindú constitution Village communities of landholders	62

LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF GÓTAMA BUDDHA	93

Dissensions in the assembly	134

Death of two favourite disciples	140

Allegorical character of the legend	146

Demarcation between priest and layman	152

Strategy of Alexander	158

flight of Porus	164

Traces amongst the Rajpoots 24	173

District inspectors	197

Character of the supervision over trades and artisans	208

Asokas accession to the throne of Magadha	233

Death of Asoka B C 288 Interval of seven centuries	239

The little and great Vehicles	245

Religious character of FahHians travels	251

Pride of caste in a converted Bráhman	257

Public expenditure	263

Superiority of the ancient Mahrattas to the modern type	266

Introduction of HiouenThsang	272

Route of HiouenThsang from Nálanda to the Bay	279

The Toycart	285

The flying heroine	291

Punishment of a barbarous husband	344

Jeypore and Marwar discarded by the Rana	350

The Byadeit or privy council	356

India from the seventh to the seventeenth centuries	358

Conception of Siva and Durgá	364

Incarnations of Vishnu as Ráma and Krishna	370

Victory of Ráma over Rávana	376

character of the people	383

Malabar proper Konkana	392

Religious bathings	395

Patna	398

Importance of the history	404

Intrigues of the Mussulman merchants at Calicut	410

destruction	416

political organization	422

Shrine of St Thomas	428

Spirit of the Macedonians broken by the southwest mon	489

a sacred caste	490

the edicts and the chron	491

Chronology of the Sanskrit drama 325	492

The village the kingdom and the empire 265	493

Five Tamil kingdoms	496

Origin of the rite of Satí or Suttee	497

Substitution of officialism for feudalism 356	498

BUDDHIST CHRONICLES	35

Title	The History of India from the Earliest Ages, Volume 3 The History of India from the Earliest Ages, James Talboys Wheeler
Author	James Talboys Wheeler
Publisher	Trübner, 1874
Original from	the Bavarian State Library
Digitized	5 Mar 2015

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