Assassins, employed against a hostile army—I. [149].
Assessors—II. [497].
Astrologers, secret arrangement made with by a king’s minister, in order to keep him from an imprudent marriage—I. [280].
Astrology, knowledge of, possessed by a Bráhman—I. [272].
Asura, generic name of certain demons in perpetual hostility with the gods—I. [2], [69], [70], [71], [116], [155], [157], [257], [260], [268], [276], [283], [299], [309], [337], [406], [407], [414], [415], [416], [417], [425], [428], [429], [430], [431], [435], [445], [447], [453], [456], [474], [475], [477], [478], [481], [558], [559]; II. [255], [270], [271], [381], [486], [487], [514], [515], [516], [517], [522], [524], [526], [527], [530], [539], [540], [541], [542], [543], [547], [549], [551], [552].
Aśvamedha sacrifice—I. [411], [415].
Austerities, wonderful power of—II. [538].
Automata, of wood—I. [390].
Avadána, the Bodhisattva, story of Brahmadatta found in—II. [506] note;
the Mahávastu, story of the monkey and the porpoise found in—II. [84] note;
contains story of a girl cured of leprosy—II. 632.
Avadánas, Indian fables found in—II. [44] note, [45] note, [46] note, [47] note, [55] note, [60] note, [61] note, [62] note, [67] note, [69] note, [75] note, [76] note, [77] note, [87] note, [88] note.