Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, Alberuni's India (v. 2)

(London :  Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,  1910.)

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Buddhists, i. 7, 21, 40, 91, 121,156;
their writing, 173 ; their cosmo¬
graphic views, 249, 326 ; ii. 169

BUshang, i. 299

Calendar of Kashmir, ii. 5, 8

Ceylon, i. 209 ; pearls, i. 211

che-ss, i. 183-185

China, ii. 104

Chinese, ii. 239

Chinese papei', i. 171

Christianity, i. 6, 8

Christians, their use of the words

Father and Son, i. 38
Christian views, i. 69
Chiistians, i. 94 ; ii. 186
Christian traditions, ii. 151, 161
clepsydra), i. 337
Commodus, Emperor, i. 123
Constantine, Emperor, ii. 161

Daibal, i. 208

Daizan, i. 109

Danak, Pei'sian, i. 163

Denars, i. 309

Dlbajat (Maledives,  Laccadives), i.

233 ; ii. 106
Dirhams, i. 160, 163, 164
diz (Persian), i. 304

Emphdocles, i. 85

era of the realm of Sindh, ii. 48, 49

era of Yazdajird, ii. 48, 49

Eranian traditions, i. 249

Eranshahr, i. 54

Erichthonius, i. 407

Fahfaza, i. 299

farsakh,   Persian,  i. 167,   311 ;   ii.

67, 68
Fulus, i. 160
Ftisanj, i. 299

Galenus, i. 222, 320 ; cle indole ani-
mce, i. 123 ; hoolc of speeches, i. 95 ;
look of deduction, i. 97 ; com¬
mentary to the Apothegms of
Hippocrates, ii. 168; Protred-
ticus, i. 34 ; commentary on the
Aphoi'isms of Hippocrates, i. 35,
36; llcLTi). yh-n, i. 127, 151

Gauge-yeai-, ii. 2, 7, 28, 31, 39, 44,
47, 48, 50, 53

Ghazna, i. 117, 206, 317

Ghaznin, ii. 103

ghlXr, measure in Khwarzim, i, 166
 

Ghurrat-alzljat, ii, 90

Ghuzz (Turks), ii. 168

Gilgit, i. 207

Girnagar, Eranian, i. 250

Girshah, i. 109

Gospel, quoted, i. 4

Greek legend.?, i. 96

Greek philosophy, i. 7, 24, 33

Greek traditions, i. 105, 112, 143;
origin of the alphabet, i. 172 ; on
the astrolabe, i. 215, 219, 220,.
222; on the Milky Way, i. 281,
289 ; on the first meridian, i. 304 ;.
on tlie chariot of war, i. 407

Harkan, ii. 52

Hebrew, i. 36, 37, 38

Herbadh, i. 109

Hindus, their language, i. 17 f
classical and vernacular, i. 18;
shortcomings of manusciipt tra¬
dition, i. 18 ; the metrical form^
of composition, i. 19 ; their
avei-sion to strangers, i. 20 ;■
their systems of matiimony, i.
107; the balance they use, i.
164; relation between authors-
(writers) and the nation at large,
!. 265 ; their architecture, ii. 144

Hippocrates, his pedigree, i. 379

Homer, i. 42, 98

Huns, ii. 239

Ibn Almukaffa , i. 264

Impila, name of the rhinoceros with

the Negroes, i. 204
India, rainfall, i. 211, 212
Isfandiyad, i. 193

Islam, sectarian views, i. 31, 263, 264
Ispahbad (of Kabul), ii. 157
'lyas Ibn Mu'awiya, ii. 158

Jabriyya, a Muslim sect, i. 31

Jalam Ibn Shaibau, i. 116

Jam, i. 304

Jewish tradition on the tetragram-

maton, i. 173
Jews, i. 6, 109 ; ii. 240
Johannes  Grammaticus, refutation

of Proclus, i. 36, 65, 226, 231 ; ii.

171
Jlin, Arabised form oi yojana, i. 167
Jurjan, i. 258, 305 : ii. 182
Jlizajan, i. 308

Kabul, i. 22 ; its history, ii. 10,157
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