M

Maçaka, his Çrauta Sūtra, [245]

Mādhava, [275], [276], [400], [406], [407]

Madhyadeça, [160], [214]

Mādhyaṃdinas, [177], [212]

Magadha, [24], [155]

Magadhas, [156], [195]

Māgadhī dialect, [27]

Māgha, [329]

Magic, [97]

Magical hymns, [120]

Mahābhārata, [153], [154], [156], [157], [165], [175], [193], [216], [278], [281], [282]–298, [299], [300], [301], [303], [309], [325], [354], [367], [378], [380], [383], [392], [394], [396], [398];
its date, [287];
its episodes, [294]–298, [414];
its main story, [291]–294;
its nucleus, [284], [285];
its recensions, [283];
recited now, [288];
a smṛiti, [284], [287], [288], [289]

Mahābhāshya, [189], [322], [347], [414], [431]

Mahādeva, [178], [182], [206]

Mahākāvyas, [330]

Mahānārāyaṇa Upanishad, [211]

Mahārāshṭrī dialect, [27]

Mahāvīracharita, [364]

Mahāvṛishas, [195]

Maheçvara, [433]

Maitrāyaṇa Upanishad, [212], [230], [231]

Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, [54] n., [176], [180], [183], [212]

Maitrāyaṇīyas, [175], [215]

Maitreyī, [222]

Mālatīmādhava, [363]

Mālava era, [320], [323]

Mālavikāgnimitra, [353], [354], [360]

Malāyalam, [28]

Mallinātha, [324], [327], [328], [330]

Mammaṭa, [434]

Mānava Çrauta Sūtra, [246];
Dharma Sūtra, [262], [428];
Gṛihya Sūtra, [250], [429];
Dharmaçāstra, [428]

Māṇḍūkas, [52]

Māṇḍūkeyas, [50], [52]

Māṇḍūkya, [241]

Man-eating tiger, [148]

Manes, [125], [169]

Mankha-koça, [433]

Manoravasarpaṇa, [144]

Mantra and Brāhmaṇa, [180]

Mantra-brāhmaṇa, [250]

Mantrapāṭha, [250]

Mantras, [177]–180, [187]

Manu, [108], [156], [175], [216], [261], [262], 295, [299], [394], [398];
code of, [3], [193], [428];
ship of, [144];
and fish, [300]

Manyu, [101]

Māra, [225]

Marāṭhī dialect, [17], [27]

Marriage ritual, [162], [254], [263]–264

Maruts, [85], [87]–90, [105]

Mashi (ink), [19]

Mātariçvan, [70], [88], [108]

Materialists, [405]–407

Māṭhava, [214], [215]

Mathematics, [434]–435

Mathurā, [26], [27], [175], [322], [323], [411]

Matsya (fish), [143], [300]

Matsyas, [154], [157], [175]

Maues (Moa), [412]

Maurya dynasty, [410]

Max Müller, Professor, [6], [12], [276], [322], [323]

Mechanical formulas, [183]

Medhātithi, [429]

Medicine, Greek and Indian, [426]–427;
Indian, [435]–436;
in the Atharvaveda, [196]

Megasthenes, [13], [148], [158], [286], [308], [411], [416]

Meghadūta, [324], [335]–336

Menander, [412] (king), [416] (poet)

Metre, [267];
in drama, [349];
Vedic, [55];
post-Vedic, [279], [281]

Milinda, [412]

Milk and soma, [98]

Mīmāṃsā system, [399]–400, [407]

Mirage, [108], [401]

Mitāksharā, [424]

Mithilā, [214]

Mithra, [68]

Mitra, [68], [78]

Mitra-Varuṇa, [104]

Mixed castes, [184]

Moabite stone, [16]

Mohamudgara, [378]

Monkey, [119], [148]

Monotheistic tendency, [70], [96]

Moon (Soma), [100]

Moral philosophy, [384]

Morality, [163];
divine, [73]

Mountains, [114]

Mṛicchakaṭikā, [360]–361, [416]

Mudrā, [399]

Mudrā-rākshasa, [365], [378]

Mugdha-bodha, [432]

Muhammadan conquest, [9], [13], [18], [26], [413], [430]

Muhammadans, [7]

Mūjavat, [144]

Mūjavats, [153], [156], [195]

Muṇḍaka Upanishad, [222], [240]

Music, [169], [436]–437

Musicians, [170]

Mutiny, Indian, [110]

Mythology of Rigveda, [67];
of Yajurveda, [181]