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# The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.86

The Greeks in Bactria and India c12.86

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### [c12.86](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12.86)

by a wild Indo-Chinese tradition (G. Cœdès, BEFEO xxv, p. 112) which makes Nāgasena a pupil of Dhammarakkita (Asoka’s missionary to the West) who lived in Asokagrāma (Pātaliputra) and had been Menander’s teacher before Nāgasena.

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- [Pāṭaliputra](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.pataliputra)

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