[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) › c12.77 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.77 The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.77 - **Language:** English ### [c12.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.77) Nāgasena has been investigated most thoroughly, and the conclusion reached is that he was an invented character; he has no known existence apart from the Milinda.⁸ It seems therefore that the Indian Buddhist who wrote Part 1 of the Milinda, with a large selection of Buddhist monarchs and Buddhist sages to choose from, selected as the principal characters in his Dialogue a foreign king and a non-existent sage. Why? To answer that question, which goes to the root of the matter, I must leave the Milinda for the present and turn to Pseudo-Aristeas. The investigation, I fear, is going to take us right down one of the by-paths of Hellenistic literature; and I must begin by analysing Pseudo-Aristeas. - [Previous: c12.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.76) - [Next: c12.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.78) - [Up: c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.77) · Pramāṇa