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Index. 



Bhatnir, 33, 34 



Bhumiya, 305 



Bihari Ji Temple, at Brindiban, 312 



bitumen, 42». 



bombarda, etymology of, 44 



Bos grunniens, or yak, 271 



Bote, a general name for the people of 



Astor, Gilgit, &c, 128 

 Brahmanism, its relation to Buddhism, 304, 



382, 386 

 Brindaban, 312 

 brooch, as worn in Grilgit, 137 

 Bubbur, in Gilgit, 135 

 Buddhism, its relation to Brahmanism, 



304, 382, 386 

 Bundelas, 280 



Bundelkhand, popular songs of, 279 

 Bunji, 120, 121 

 Burma, petroleum of, 61 



c 



ANNA, cane, whence i cannon', 44 



Carnegy, Mr. P., on the Bhars of Audh 

 and Banaras, 297 



Caste songs, in Bundelkhand, 280 



Chachndmdhj quoted, 39 



Chakerkot, 121 



Chamargor, a clan in Audh, 302 



Chamunda, or Chandika, a divinity, 113 



Chand, the poet, mentions fire-arms, 46 



Chand Khan, of the Sundarban, 75 



Chandecan, in the Sundarban, identified, 

 74, 75 " 



Chandradip Bajas, 72 



charms, or ta'wiz, as used in Gilgit, 137 



Chaturmasya, a sacrifice, 386 ; is the pro- 

 totype of the Christian Lent, 387 



chhcmd, a kind of poem, 10^. 



Chilas, 120 



Chitral, 125 



Chinese, use naphtha for warming and 

 lighting, 43 ; not the inventors of gun- 

 powder, 63 



Chitraktit, 2 



clans, Hindu, in Audh, 302 



Coins of Dihli, Malwah, Bengal, Kulbarga, 

 and Kashmir, 291; of Kadphisis and 

 Kanerko, 297 



complexion, of Gilgitis, 131 



Constantinople, siege of, 39 



crocodiles, legends regarding them, 50 



Cujpressus torulosa, 207 



D 



f AJTPOKEH, in Gilgit, 133 

 Dal, a Bhar chief, 303 

 Dalmau, 303 

 Dandaka forest, 18^„ 

 Dards, of the Hindu Kush, 140, 141 

 Dasapeya, a rite, 396 

 Dasyus, 299, 300 



Delmerick, Mr. J. G., Second List of Rare 

 Muhammadan coins, 291 



dega, mortar, 59 



deg-i-ghdzi, one of Babar's guns, 58 



Devasuva a rite, 390 



Dhamis, a sect, 23^. 



Dharkar, a clan in Audh, 302 



Dhumghat, in the 24-Parganahs, 75 



dialects of Hindi, in Bundelkhand, 282 



Dihli, coins of, emperors of, 291 ; captured 

 by the Muhammadans in 589H., 327 ; 

 Imperial assemblage held at, three thou- 

 sand years ago, 368 



Dikhaniya, a rite, 390 



Dinajpur, whether the ancient Virata, 

 372^. 



dogs, wild, 269 



Dogras, or Kashmir troops, 119, 120 



Doms, or sweeper, in Banaras, 280 



donkeys, in Gilgit, 138 



Dorah Pass, 125^. 



drunkenness, in Gilgit, 135 



Dubari Mount, in Gilgit, 123 



Dumars, or sweepers, in Hamirpur, 280 



Dumrot, near the upper Indus, 121 



Durga Puja, ritual of, 114, 117 



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FFIGIES, substituted for living men 

 in sacrifices, 116 

 Egyptians, sacrifice human beings, 83 

 elephants, frightened by Greek fire, 40 

 elm tree, 212 

 Eqiws hernionus, 195 

 Eta, district of, 281 



Pi 



EH gregois y or Greek fire, meaning of 



69^. 

 Fire weapons, early Asiatic, 30 

 firingi, or artillery, 65, 66 

 Firuz Shah (III), coin of, 291 

 floods of the Indus, 136^. 



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JTAOKUCH, i n Gilgit, 128 



gdvidhuka, or wild paddy, offered to Ru- 

 dra, 389 



genealogies, of Hindu chiefs, how fabri- 

 cated, 306 



Geography, of the Mahabharata, 375 



Ghalchah, a general term for the people 

 about the headwaters of the Oxus, 

 139;— languages, 139 



Gilgit Valley, trip to, by Capt. Marsh, 119 



Gitch, in Gilgit, 133 



gol-anddz, 56 



Golapur, Fort of, in Gilgit, 132 



grapes, of Gilgit, 124, 134 



Greek fire, 31 ; how quenched, 35 



Growse, F. S., specimen translation of 



