The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.46

c12.46

We have then two allusions in Part I of the Pali Milinda which are very near in time to Menander and which presuppose a knowledge of certain Greek things in the reader. Another Greek item is shown in a list of people which runs Yonakas, Kshatriyas, Brahmans, householders (bourgeois).³ An Indian Buddhist writer would naturally put Kshatriyas before Brahmans, but no one but a Greek was going to put Greeks first of all; to Indians they were, at best, imperfect Kshatriyas (p. 173). This item, like the word Yonaka, is from some current Greek source, oral or written.