[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) › c14.9 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c14.9 The Greeks in Bactria and India c14.9 - **Language:** English ### [c14.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c14.9) The Periplus (62) gives a region Dosarene on the coast of Orissa, where a Greek name is impossible. It is not given in Ptolemy, who only gives a town Dosara and a river Dosaron (VII, 1, 77). The author of the Periplus, in the middle of the first century A.D., was an unlearned trader who knew nothing about the long-vanished Seleucid eparchies; but he knew that in Asia a great many names of districts ended in -ηνῃ, and he just coined Dosarene from Dosara as a likely reproduction of the sound of the Indian name Dacharna.¹ I shall return to Dosarene, which is much later than the Hellenistic period. - [Previous: c14.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c14.8) - [Next: c14.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c14.10) - [Up: c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c14) ## Cites (1) - [Dosara](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.dosara) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c14.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c14.9) · Pramāṇa