[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c12.146 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.146 The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.146 - **Language:** English ### [c12.146](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.146) One further point. The earliest list of Alexander-questions could consist solely of \*aporiai\* because it was only a small incident in a long story; but it is hard to conceive of a Greek writing a Questions of Menander with a formal introduction merely to make the king put \*aporiai\* to a Buddhist sage. The Questions of Ptolemy II is a serious enough document, even though it has not got rid of \*aporiai\* altogether;¹ and the Greek Questions of Menander must surely have contained serious questions as well as \*aporiai\*, questions not perhaps specifically connected with Buddhism, but at least concerned with such commonplaces of philosophy as might interest both peoples. If so, the legend of Menander as a great Buddhist monarch might not be purely Indian; Greeks might have played a part in its formation. But that would not prove that the Menander of history took a personal interest in Buddhism (see pp. 268 \*sq.\*). - [Previous: c12.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.145) - [Next: c12.147](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.147) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.146](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.146) · Pramāṇa