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The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s7.224

The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s7.224

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c10.s7.224

papyri,¹ and that should suffice, seeing that Greeks in the East had some fancy for similar names.² One other name, however, is far too late to consider, that of the *bhikku* Dharmamitra from Nagara; for though Dharmamitra had been used for Demetrius (pp. 178, 455) and Nagara had been Dionysopolis, the inscriptions are fifth-century A.D. and both the monk and his name were certainly Indian.³