[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) › c12.46 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.46 The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.46 - **Language:** English ### [c12.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.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. - [Previous: c12.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.45) - [Next: c12.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.47) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12) ## Cites (1) - [Milindapañha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.milindapanha) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.46) · Pramāṇa