The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s4.33

c10.s4.33

In the south-west, Menander certainly ruled in Barygaza for a number of years, which may be taken to mean from Apollodotus’ death to his own; the evidence is precisely the same as for the rule of Apollodotus (see p. 149) and need not be repeated. This implies that he ruled the whole of the Indus country and southward to Gujerat. But Ujjain and Avanti were now Pushyamitra’s (pp. 164, 165 n. 1), which means that if they had belonged to Apollodotus they had been lost or abandoned just as Pāṭaliputra had been abandoned; if so, Madhyamikā must have been abandoned also and Greek rule confined to the coastal provinces. But here the important evidence is that of Claudius Ptolemy, which has been several times alluded to; and I must now turn to that writer.