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# The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.3

The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.3

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### [c12.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.3)

¹ I cite this work in Rhys Davids’ translation of the Pali version, 2 vols. = \*Sacred books of the East\* vols. XXXV–VI, 1890, 1894; I give his pages and in brackets the pages of Trenckner’s Pali text; Part I is vol. I pp. 1–136. I have also consulted L. Finot, \*Les questions de Milinda\* 1923 (translation of Part I); O. F. Schrader, \*Die Fragen des Königs Menandros\* 1905; Winternitz II, 1920, pp. 139 sqq. (II pp. 174 sqq. of the English translation, 1933); P. Pelliot, \*Les noms propres dans les traductions chinoises du Milindapañha\*, JA 1914 p. 379; Mrs Rhys Davids, \*The Milinda Questions\* 1930. I have been unable to see R. Garbe, \*Der Milindapañha, ein kulturhistorischer Roman\* 1903, and A. Gueth, \*Bhikku Nyanatiloka, Die Fragen des Milinda\* 1919. For the Chinese translation I have used Demiéville’s exhaustive study, who gives (pp. 75 sqq.) a French translation \*sub tit.\* \*Sûtra du bhikshu Nagasena\*. A bibliography of the literature relating to the Chinese version is given by Siegfried Behrsing in \*BSOS\* VII, ii, 1934, p. 335, and of that relating to the Pali version \*ib.\* p. 517.

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