The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.221

c10.s4.221

It is hardly possible to separate these nine Yavanas and it must therefore be supposed that all were Greek citizens.² The dedication by Indragnidatta is instructive in this respect.³ He says that he was a native of the north but dwelt in Datāmitī (*i.e.* Demetrias in Patalene, p. 142), of which city he was therefore a citizen; and he knows enough of the Greek of his day to describe himself, not by the usual Indian term Yavana, but by the current Hellenistic Greek form Yonaka.⁴ The notable thing here is that Demetrias was a city with a dynastic name, and so far as can be seen citizenship in Seleucid cities with dynastic names was confined to Greeks (Chap. 1); the Indian citizens of Demetrias therefore constitute a wide departure from Seleucid practice and throw fresh light on Demetrius’ policy (p. 181) of making his Indian empire a kind of partnership.