The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s6.77

c10.s6.77

But Maues could not, or did not, conquer the Greeks of the eastern Punjab; they seem to have held the line of the Jhelum successfully (p. 329), which implies that the Indian peoples immediately concerned were still on their side. But before Maues came, the eastern Greeks had already lost Mathurā and the country between Mathurā and the eastern boundary of the Madras, the Ravi. According to the coins, the last Greek king to rule Mathurā itself was Strato I in conjunction with his grandson Strato II,⁴ a fact which seems to indicate that the eastern kingdom remained in one hand as long as Strato I lived. As we have seen, he was a young boy when Menander died between 150 and 145; allowing for his long life and for the fact that at the end his grandson was associated with him in the kingdom, Mathurā cannot well have been lost before 100 B.C. or thereabouts, and a date for its loss of *c.* 100 B.C., or possibly a little later—anyhow before 90 B.C.—would agree very well with all other indications.¹