The Greeks in Bactria and India c17.12

c17.12

² Transcriptions. Dattāmitra (Patañjali and Mahābhārata), Devamantiya (Milindapañha), Dharma-mita (Yuga-purāṇa, App. 4); these three are ‘adjusted’ to look like Indian words. Demetriya (on the bilingual tetradrachm), Timitra (on a seal from Besnagar, ASI 1914-15 i p. 19, ii p. 77). Add Damtāmitiyaka or Datāmitiyaka (Nasik 19, see p. 257 n. 3) for an inhabitant of Demetrias, and Dharmamitra-Demetrias, Lévi in JA 1933 p. 27 n. 1 (see p. 118). Note that Demetriya, though Prakrit, has retained the r.