Buddhism in India

Index 307

Maharashtra, 117, 178, 244–45;

anti-caste movement, 17; bhakti

movement, 190, 200, 203, 207;

Buddhism, 168; caste, 127; dalits,

266; Mahayana, 102; Theravada,

101; women’s movement, 227;

See alsoPhule, Jotirao

Maharashtri Prakrit, 89, 119

Maharawada, 245

Mahars, 201, 203, 246, 258,

264; and

Mahasammata, 73

Mahasanghikas, 101, 108

Mahavaggaof Vinaya, 82

Mahavira, 39, 40, 55, 58

Mahawada, 168

Mahayana, 2, 3, 8, 11, 17, 86, 89,

94, 101–02, 103, 104, 105, 108–09,

110, 111, 113, 114, 115, 136, 155,

159, 164, 210, 269, 277, 278;

bhakti element, 106

Mahima Dharma

movement, 225–27

Mahipati, 201

Mahosadha, 142

Maithili, 89

maithuna(sexual intercourse), 111

Maitreya, 136

Maitreyi, 47, 59

Majjhima Nikaya, 60, 272

Malakuta, 157

male chauvinism, 11, 41

male dominance, 81–82

Malis, 228

mallas, 45, 93

Mallika, 60

Malwa, 158

mamsa(meat), 111

Manjusri, 109

manifestation, process of, 63

Manu, 70, 79, 83, 129, 141, 173

Manusmriti, 39, 44, 45, 71, 79,

125, 247

Mara, 64

Maratha, 204

Maratha-Kunbis, SeeKunbis

Marathi, 89

market economy, 66

Martanda, 177

Marx, Karl, 19, 75, 144–45, 218,

219, 243, 253–54, 257, 260, 272

Marxism, Marxists, 1–2, 18, 71, 96,

112, 135, 142, 143–45, 161, 162,

242, 244, 279, 280

Marxism-Phule-Ambedkarism, 144

mass conversions, 266

master–employer relationship, 70–71

Matanga Jataka, 130

Matanga, Kasyapa, 76, 124,

130–32, 282

materialism, 16, 36–37, 59,

140–41, 145, 183, 212; and

beyond, 271–74

materialist philosophy, 60–61

materialists, 34–41, 274

matriarchy, 26

matrilineal monarchies, 167

matsya(fish), 111

Matsya Purana, 169

matter and spirit, 63

Mauryan, 153, 168

Mauryas, 90, 124, 133, 155

meaning, 33

meat-eating, 55

medicine, role of Buddhism, 141

meditation (samadhi), 23, 58, 68–69,

73, 113

Megasthenes, 31, 133

Meluhha, 26

mental and material world,

unity, 62

‘merit’, 33

Mesopotamians, 26

metaphysics, 13, 103

Metta, 57

‘middle path’, 5, 115, 276

migrations, 25, 26–27

Mihirakula, Huna king, 152, 170

Milindapanha, 240

militarism, 175

mind and body, 61; control of,

58, 87

Mirabai, 193, 198–200, 213, 215

misery, 12

Mithraism, 109

Mitra, Rajendralal, 235

Kassapa, 55
Kassapa, Purana, 35
kaupinadharis, 225, 226
Kauravas, 28
Kautilya, 72, 135, 168
kavya, 119
Keluskar, Krishnarao Arjun,
235, 246
Kesakambali, Ajita, 36, 38
khandas, 59, 60
Khandesh, 157
Khasas, 169
Khattiyas,See kshatriya
Khonds, 155
kingship, 71–72
kinship, 28
Kiratas, 28, 45
knowledge, 63, 275, 276; five
branches, 141
Kolhapur, Maharashtra, 157
Koliyas, 4, 93
Konkan Dalit Movements, 255
Konkan, 177
Konkanapura, 157n
Konyodha, 154
Korea: Buddhism, 88, 149
Kosala, 29, 119, 154–55
Kosambi, D.D., 142–43, 162,
173, 236
Kosambi, Dharmananda,
235–36
Krishna, 48–49, 50, 105, 199–200,
200, 202, 206
Krishnaraja, 170, 178
Krishnaswamy, P., 237
Krityas, 152
kriyavadi, 39
Ksattr, 45
kshatriya, 28, 41, 42, 44, 45, 73,
75–76, 77, 79, 97, 118, 127, 159,
173, 177, 179, 219, 228
Kuch, 179
kumbhipatias, 225
Kunbis, 127, 203–04,
228, 244–45
Kural, 57, 80, 89
Kusanas, 135
Kush, 155

Kushanas, 152; and Buddhists,

conflict, 152

Kusinagara, 153, 273

labour: division of, 126; respect for,

79–81

Ladakh: Vajrayana, 102

Lakhana Suttaof Digha Nikaya, 86

Lalitaditya, 177

lamentations, 273

Lampakas, 169

language, Buddhism and, 87–90

liberalism, 280

liberation, 7, 18, 40, 56, 81, 104,

105, 115, 148, 275, 278

liberty, 218

Licchavis, 28, 45, 64, 93, 124, 153

lineage: based societies, 28, 129;

and clan structure, 126;—sexual

intermingling, 127

Linga Purana, 169

Lokayata, 36, 37, 39, 140, 142, 212

Lokhande, 233

lokottaravada, 108

Lothal, 26

lust, 55, 242

MacDonald, 250

madhya(alcohol), 111

Madhya Pradesh, 178

Magadha, 29, 66, 71, 88, 93, 119,

153, 170, 258

Magadha (caste), 45, 46

Maha Bodhi Journal, 235

Maha Bodhi Society, Colombo, 234

Mahabharata, 28, 37, 46, 48–49, 76,

119, 195

Mahabharata, by Sarala Das, 211

Mahabodhi Society, 258–59,

261, 263

Mahad, Konkan,

Maharashtra, 247

Mahadeva (a bhikkhu), 101

Mahanidana Suttanta, 61, 62

mahaparinibbana, 3, 23, 29, 101, 103,

153, 268

Mahaparinibbana Sutta, 9, 64, 65, 66,

69, 93, 107

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