404 INDEX. 



Macrobius, his opinion of the soul, iii. 26 1. 

 Madeira island, i. 8. 



Madras, Patana, purchased by the India Company on the Coromandel coast, iv. 282. 

 Maha Deva, the great god of the Hindoos iii. 443. 

 Maine, a French settlement on the Malabar coast, i. 321. 



Mahdarow, peshwa of the Mahrattas, i. 470; his eventful reign, 471 ; his character 

 and concluding scene with his successor and his wife, 472; death, 472; sacrifice 

 of his widow described, 472. 

 Mahmah Doocree, cruel treatment of her son at Dhuboy, ii. 337 ; her revenge on that 



city, 338 ; ordeal trial at her tomb, 338. 

 Mahmood Sultaun, his conquest, plunder, and cruelty in Hindostan, iii. 142. 

 Mahmud-a-bhaug, palace and gardens at Surat, i. 252. 



Mahomed, the Arabian prophet, i. 93; his character further illustrated, iv. 195. 

 Mahomedans invade Hindostan, i. S9 ; their characters, dress, manners, and customs, 

 i. 94; behaviour of those in high life, i. 102; seclusion of their women, i. 103; 

 conduct of men in power, 220; ciuel and intolerant zeal, ii. 316; venerable patri- 

 arch at Ram-Rajah, i. 219. 

 Mahomedan females at Ahmedabad, iii. 133; their situation illustrated from scripture, 

 133; Koran admits of their having souls, 2(39; their allotment in Mahomed's 

 paradise, 269; general character, 329; behaviour at a funeral, 379. 

 Mahomedan literature, state of in India, iii. 413. 

 Mahomedan paradise, its sensuality, i. 93. 

 Mahomed Co^sim, his cruel punishment, iii. 387. 

 Mahomed Khan, letter from, iii. 359. 

 Mahomed Shah, emperor of Hindostan, i. 464. 

 Mahrat, name of a province in India, i. 460. 



Mahrattas, their origin and name, i. 46 I ; Sevajce, the first rajah, 46l ; their warlike 

 character, 463; astonishing rise as an empire, 463 ; great increase of their army 

 463; their peshwas in succession, i. 480; commencement of the civil wars, 480- 

 their situation as a caste among the Hindoos, ii. 51 ; women, cattle, and military 

 life, ii. 52; hardiness in war, ii. 131 ; pitched battles, ii. 151. 

 Mahralta army, completely described by Sir Chatles Malet, ii. 143, &c. 

 Mahratta camp, tents, weapons of war, armour, &c. &.c. described, ii. 146. 

 Malabar, first view of the coast, i. 12. ; its proper boundaries, i. 294; voyage on that 



coast delightful, 335 ; natural history of Malabar, 347, &c. 

 Malabar manuscripts on olas, i. 39!. 



Malabars of Travencore, their general character, i. 378 ; their houses, gardens, culti- 

 vation and crops, i. 394; punishment of criminals, i. 394. 

 Malet, Sir Chatles, his account of the temples at Ellora, i. 442. 



of a Cheeta hunt, i. 271. 



of the Telinga brahmins at Poonah, ii. 133. 



