The Greeks in Bactria and India c16.39

c16.39

Jayaswal thinks that §5 means that the Greeks did not take Pāṭaliputra.³ But even in his MSS the first two lines of §7 show that Demetrius and the Yavanas had the supreme power, which entails the occupation of the capital, and Kern’s MS gave its capture; the translations of both Lévi⁴ and Barnett (above) are clear as to that. There is no doubt that in actual fact the Greeks did take Pāṭaliputra, from the passage of Apollodorus given on p. 144, a passage which has not found its way into the stock Greek quotations available to the Orientalist and is therefore usually overlooked.