M.

Madalekhā, Kādambarī’s confidante, 148, 150, 156

Madana (god of Love), 8, 17;
(the thorn-apple), 17

Mādhavī, creeper, 194

Madhuban, grant, vii note, xvii

Madhukaiṭabha, a demon, 17

Madhukarikā, 145

Madirā, 140, 151, 208

Magadha, a country, 53, 148

Mahābhārata, the epic, 40, 49, 53, 60, 88, 93, 162, 201, 212

Mahābhisha, 201

Mahāçvetā, a Gandharva princess, ix, x, xi, xiii, xvi, xx, 103, 113, 142, and passim

Mahākāla, Çiva, xvi, 47, 53, 200, 210, 213, 214

Mahāvarāha, Vishṇu’s Boar-avatar, 17, 30, 85, 145, 213

Mahāvīra fires, 2

Mahisha, a demon, 9

Mahodaya, a hall, 196

Maina, a bird, 2, 11, 39, 145, 150, 194, 219

Maināka, Mount, 211

Makarandikā, xi

Makarikā (a betel-bearer), 52;
(an attendant), 144

Malabārī, woman of Malabar, 16

Mālatikā, 144

Mātanga (of Caṇḍāla birth), 8, 9, 10;
(a man), 28

Mālatī (Jasminum Grandiflorum), 12, 14, 69, 157, 194

Mālavīs, women of Malwa, 211, 214

Malaya, hills of Malabar, 9, 51, 105, 124, 179, 186, 192

Mānasa, a lake, 23, 41, 51, 113, 190

Mandara, Mount, 48, 50, 64, 78, 85, 162 note.

Mandāra, the coral-tree, 105, 174, 210, 211, 215

Māndhātṛi, a king, 57, 88

Maukharis, the, a family, 1

Manoramā, Çukanāsa’s wife, 57, 72, 174, 189, 207

Manorathaprabhā, xi

Mantra, hymn, 39, 56, 200

Maruts, the winds, 100

Mātṛikās, the, goddesses, xvi, 56

Mathurā, a city, 201

Mattamayūra, 168

Mayūrikā, 145

Meghadūta, 96 note

Meghanāda, a warrior, 171, 174, 175, 185, 187, 191, 198, 201

Menakā, an Apsaras, 138

Meru, Mount, 3, 6, 19, 64, 85, 87, 114

Milky Ocean, 2, 85, 86, 95, 96, 102, 109, 125, 156, 166, 174

Mṛinālikā, 144

Mṛittikāvatī, a city, 64

Mukuṭatāḍitaka, viii

Mūla, a constellation, 46

Muni, an Apsaras, 102

Muni, an ascetic, 39, and passim

Muñja, a grass, 19, 39, 104

N.

Nāga, a snake, 30, 138;
an elephant, 30

Nahusha, a serpent, 19, 20, 47, 201

Nala, a king, 47, 50, 215

Nalacampū, viii, xiv

Nalakūbara, a god, 108

Nandana, Indra’s wood, 21, 57, 109

Nārada, a sage, 60, 162

Naraka, a demon, 37

Nara-Nārāyaṇa, Arjuna and Kṛishṇa, 216

Nārāyaṇa, Vishṇu, 4, 8, 48, 50, 54, 58, 64, 78, 182

Narmadā, or Nerbuddha, river, 27, 215

Netra, a tree, 18

Nipuṇikā, 144

Nishāda, a musical note, 30;
a mountaineer, xi, 28, 30

Nṛisiṃha, or Narasiṃha, Vishṇu in his Man-lion Avatar, 3, 85

P.

Pakshapāta, partiality, 40 note, 211

Palāça, a tree (Butea Frondosa), 18, 19

Pallavikā, 145

Pampā, a lake, 20, 24

Panasa, bread-fruit tree, 39

Pāñcālī style, xviii

Pañcavaṭī, a district, 19

Pāṇḍavas, The, 18 note, 93

Pāṇḍu, a king, 137

Paraçurāma, avatar of Vishṇu, 6, 27, 61

Parihāsa, a parrot, 150, 151, 194

Parīkshit, a king, 138

Pārijāta, coral-tree, 109, 110, 112, 117, 126

Pārvatī, wife of Çiva, 8, 63, 103

Pārvatīpariṇaya, viii

Patralekhā, the hero’s confidante, 75, 86, 89, 141, 164, 167, 169, 170, 171, 173, 174, 175, 177, 179, 180, 183, 184, 185, 187, 188, 191, 193, 195–197, 208

Persia, 62

Peterson’s Edition of Kādambarī, vii, viii, xii, xvii, xix, xx, xxiii

Pipal, a tree (Ficus Religiosa), 56

Pippalī, long pepper, 145

Pitṛis, the Manes, 14, 39

Prajāpati, the Creator, 10, 96, 144, 169

Pramadvarā, an Apsaras, 138

Pramathas, demons, 47, 210

Pramati, an ascetic, 138

Prithurāja, a king, 4

Priyaṅgu, panic seed, 139

Pulastya, xi

Puṇḍarīka, a Brahman, ix, x, xi, xiii, xix, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 109, 110, 115, 116, 118, 120, 121, 122, 125, 126, 128, 131, 133, 134, 135, 136, 138, 192, 193, 195, 196, 197

Purāṇas, sacred legendary histories, 10, 40, 60, 189, 200, 212

Purushottama, Vishṇu, 79 note

Pushkara, a place, 37 note

R.

Raghuvaṃça, 94 note

Rāghavapāṇḍavīya, xx

Raghu, a king, 20

Rāhu, the demon of eclipse, 1, 31, 36, 52, 80, 96, 214

Rajanikā, 144

Rākshasas, demons, 137

Rallakas, deer, 220

Rāma, a king, son of Daçaratha, 19, 20, 21, 27, 40, 50, 212, 215

Rāmāyaṇa, the epic of Rāma, 40, 60, 201, 212

Rambhā, an Apsaras, 64

Raṅku deer, 23, 220

Rapin, 105 note

Rasa, poetic charm, xiii note

Rasanopamā, xix

Rati, wife of the god of love, 8, 67, 69, 96, 102, 104, 137, 144, 214, 215

Rāvaṇa, the demon King of Ceylon, 1, 18, 19, 20, 27, 86, 96, 215

Rig-Veda, 38 note

Rishi, a sage, 38, 100;
Ṛishis, the Seven (or Seven Sages), Ursa Major, 23, 38, 41, 45, 46, 84, 90, 216

Ṛrishyāçṛiṅga, a hermit, 53

Rohiṇī, wife of the Moon, xxi, 124, 159, 206, 208, 209

Rudra, Çiva, 40

Ruru, an ascetic, 138

S.

Sāgarikā, 144

Sāhitya-Darpaṇa, xii, xviii, xix, xx, 212 note

Sāma Veda, 2, 37 note

Sāṃkhyā philosophy, 212

Saudāsa, a king, 201

Sandīpani, a Brahman, 138

Saptacchada, or Saptaparṇa, a tree (Alstonia), 18, 28, 81

Sarvāstivādin, 212 note

Sarasvatī, goddess of eloquence, xiii, 2, 3, 4, 41, 104, 105

Satī, a wife killing herself at her husband’s death, 69

Sena, a Gandharva, 102

Sephālikā, a tree (Nyctanthes Arbor Tristis), 7, 23

Setubandha, Mount, 215

Shakespeare’s ‘Merchant of Venice,’ ‘Julius Cæsar,’ xix

Siddhas, the, semi-divine beings, 45, 56, 98, 108, 137, 210

Sinduvāra, shrub (Vitex Negundo), 46, 97, 159

Sindhu, Sindh, 137

Siprā, river, xvi, 59, 185, 211

Sirīsha, v. Çirīsha, 162

Sītā, wife of Rāma, 17, 19, 20

Smṛiti, divine tradition, 2

Soma, juice of a plant used in sacrifice, 2, 3, 40;
(the moon), 36, 125, 204 note

Somadeva, xi

Somaprabha, xi

Sthūlaçiras, an ascetic, 64

Sthūlakeça, an ascetic, 138

Subandhu, xx

Subhāshitāvali, viii note, 1

Subrahmaṇyā, Vedic verses, 39

Sumanas, xi

Sumitrā, wife of Daçaratha, 215 note

Sunāsīra, Indra, 50

Supārçva, Mount, 162 note

Suras, the, the gods, 63

Sūrasena, a king, 137

Sushumnā, a ray of the sun, 106

Suvarṇapura, a city, 90, 91

Svabhāvokti, description of natural properties, xx

Svayaṃvara, the choice of a husband by a princess, 180