Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c16.s1.t2.26

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**Demetrios** has been identified by some with king Dattāmitra mentioned in the *Mahābhārata*,² the "great Emetreus, the king of Inde" of Chaucer's *Knightes Tale* and Timitra of a Besnagar seal.³ The wide extent of his conquests is proved by the existence of several cities named after him or his father in Afghanistān as well as India. Thus in the work of Isidore of Charax⁴ we have a reference to a city named Demetriaspolis in Arachosia. The *Vyākaraṇa* (grammar) of Kramadîśvara mentions a city in Sauvîra called Dāttāmitrî.⁵ Ptolemy the Geographer mentions the city of Euthymedia (? Euthydemia¹) which was identical with Sākala,² and was, according to the *Milinda-pañho*, the capital of an Indo-Greek kingdom in the time of Menander.