

INDEX. 



Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. I. 



Ablepharus brandtii, 198. 



Abriis precatorius (Supplement iv). 



Acacia arabica (The Babul Thorn), 184, 216. 



Acala Sthavira, 3. 



Acanthodactylus cantoris, 198. 



Acanthodis imperialis, 209. 



,, ululina, 204, 209. 



Acanthophorus serraticornis , 205. 

 Acridium ceruginvsum, 204, 208. 



,, peregrinum, 210. 

 Adibuddha, 21. 



Adventure of the Opium- smoker, 381. 

 ,, ,, Scald-head, 380. 



„ Thin-beard, 383. 

 Agama, 200. 



isolepis, 197. 

 ,, nupta, 197. 



tuberculata, 188. 

 Agamura cruralis, 197. 

 ,, persica, 197. 



Aimi-s=San'ah, A few remarks on, 47. 



,, Analysis of the, 51. 



Ajapala banyan tree, 10. 

 Ajita, 2. 

 Ajita Ke?akambala, 13. 



,, Sthavira, 2. 

 Ajivaka, 12. 

 Aju Bin (Gilgit), 109. 

 Akanistha heaven, 16. 



Alchemical equipment in the nth century A.D., 

 47-70. 

 ,, instruments, 60-64. 



Alchemy, 25, 47. 



,, Application of animistic theories of 



,, medicine to, 36. 



,, its pioneers, 52. 



Alepas gigas, 74, 80. (Plate VIII, fig. 3). 

 „ inlica, 73, 74, 83. 

 ,, Unkesteri, 74, 80. 81. 

 ,, malaysiana, 74, 75 (Plate I, figs. 4, 4a) ; 

 81 ^Plate VIII, fig. 4). 



Alepas xenophorce, 83. 



Alexander the Great, as ancestor of the Ra of 



Gilgit, 95. 

 Ali Shah, The story of, 121-124. 

 Almorah, Notes on the Bhotias of, 93. 

 Alphabet, Tibetan and Kashgar-Brahmi, 43-45 



(Plates II- VI). 

 Alune, a bird (?) in Asoka edicts not yet identified, 



366. 

 Amitabha, 3, 10. 

 Amulets used in Bengal for prevention of disease, 



etc., 223-248. 

 Anathapindada, 13-15. 



,, Buddha sitting in the garden of, 



13- 

 ,, his visit to Buddha, 15. 



,, born as son of Sudatta, 16. 



,, attains Srotapatti, 18. 



Ancestor cult among the Uraons, 135. 

 Anganika Sthavira, 2. 

 Augiraja Sthavira, 2. 



Animals in the Inscriptions of Piyadasi, 361-374. 

 Animistic theories of medicine applied to Alchemy , 



36. 

 Annandale, N. — Miscellanea Ethnographica, I, 

 Supplement i-v. 

 ,, On the Common Hydra of Bengal, 



339- 

 ,, On Some Malayan Weapons, Supple- 



ment, ix-x (Plates, D & E). 

 ,, On Malaysian Barnacles, 73. 



,, and Wroughton, R. C. — On the 



Fauna of a desert Tract in South- 

 ern India, 183. 

 Anomala fratema, 204. 

 Anthia sexguttala, 205. 

 Ants in Ancient Indian Literature, 368. 

 Aparagodaniya, 3. 

 Aphanus sordidus, 205. 

 Aqiqa ceremony, 32. 

 Arabic Text of Ainu-s-San'ah, 65-70. 

 Artema atlanta, 206, 216, 218. 



