[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899) › c5.63 # The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.63 The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.63 - **Language:** English ### [c5.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.63) 144 Menander, Graeco-Baktrian king, placed by Lassen about this date. Menander seems to have been one of the most powerful of the Graeco-Baktrian kings. The number of his coins, and the wide area over which they are found, point to a long reign and an extended sovereignty. Traditions of some of his conquests have been preserved by Strabo; and Plutarch mentions him as a Baktrian king, and states that, on his death (B.C. 115), several towns contended for his ashes. The passages in Patañjali's \*Mahābhāshya\* recording the besieging of Sāketa (Ayodhyā), and the conquest of the Mādhyamikas by the Yavanas, are supposed to refer to Menander's conquests. He is also identical with the Milinda of the famous Buddhist work the \*Milinda Pañha\*.—Goldstücker, \*Pāṇini, his place in Sanskrit Literature\*, 234. LIA. ii, 313, 341 ff. IA. i, 299 ff. Von Sallet, \*Nachfolger Alexanders\*, 33, 34. BMC., \*G.S.K.\*, xxxiii. WL. 306. SBE. xxxv, Int. xviii ff. - [Previous: c5.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.62) - [Next: c5.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.64) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5) ## Linked texts (1) - [Milindapañha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.milindapanha) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.63) · Pramāṇa