The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.57

c12.57

⁴ Pelliot *op. cit.* pp. 413-17; followed by Demiéville p. 168 n. 2, Finot p. 157 n. 86, and Grousset pp. 55 n. 3, 58 n. 1. Lévi, *IHQ* XII, 1936, p. 126, also followed Pelliot in making all the mentions of Alasanda in the *Milinda* refer to Alexandria in Egypt. This is impossible. Beside the passage in Part I here discussed, the name occurs three times in Part II: Rhys Davids II pp. 204 (327), 211 (331), and 269 (359). In the last passage it is Alexandria in Egypt beyond question, as you cross the high seas to get there. But in the two former passages the name occurs in lists of places in *India*, and can only be Alexandria of the Caucasus; surely 211 (331), ‘from Kotumbara and Mathurā, from Alexandria, Kashmir, and Gandhāra’, is plain enough.