Brahmanábád: town, [519].
Brahmasarovar: lake, [454].
Brahamsiddhánta: work on astronomy by Brahmagupta, [453 note 1].
Bráhmavaka: family name of Prachanda, [129].
Brambanum: capital of Bhruvijaya, king of Jáva, [489].
Briggs: Colonel (1827), [383].
Brihaspati: Ganda Bháva, repairs the Somanátha temple, [189], [190]; God, [461].
Bṛihat Saṁhitá: work by Varáha Mihira, [540].
British: the, intervention for protection of the chiefs of Káthiáváḍa against the Mulakgiri system, [421–422]; secret treaty of the, with Rávji; reward Rávji with a village, [413]; make a fresh treaty with the Gáikwár, consolidating all previous engagements into a single treaty and constitute themselves arbiters in all disputes of the Gáikwár with foreign powers and the Peshwa (1805), [415]. See English.
Broach: Valabhi grants in, [86]; district, Gurjjara dynasty of, [107], [113]; Valabhi king’s camp of victory at, [114]; described by Hiuen Tsiang; port, submitted to Pulakeśi II.; grant at, [116], [117], [126]; Dhruva II.’s Bágumra and Baroda grants made at, [127]; a soothsayer at, promises Kumárapála the throne, [183]; Lavaṇaprasáda’s fight with Singhana at, [199]; insurrection at (1325), [513–514]; siege and relief of (1347), [230]; (1412), [235]; plundered by the Maráthás (1675), [387]; plundered second time by the Maráthás (1685), [387–388]; capture of, by the Matiás and Momnás (1691), [288]; siege of, by Damáji and the Maráthás (1741), [324], [395]; defended by the Nizám’s lieutenant Nek Alum Khán; raising of the siege by Damáji; concessions of a share in the customs revenues of, to Damáji by the Nizám, [324]; governor of, becomes independent (1752), [334]; capture of, by the English (1772), [401]; given over to Sindia in 1802, [410]; captured by the English from Sindia (1803), ceded to the English by the treaty of Sirje Anjangaon (1803), [414]; its different names, [513], [521], [528], [536], [545], [546].