[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) › c2 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c2: Chapter IV. Demetrius and the Invasion of India The Greeks in Bactria and India c2 - **Language:** English ### Chapter IV. Demetrius and the Invasion of India ### [c2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c2.1) The Mauryan empire, \*p.\* 129. Previous invasions, \*p.\* 130. Demetrius as a second Alexander, \*p.\* 131. Chronology, \*p.\* 132. Date of Menander, \*p.\* 133. Euthydemus II, \*p.\* 134. Gandhāra, \*p.\* 135. Taxila (Bhir), \*p.\* 136. Demetrius II, \*p.\* 137. Demetrius’ communications with Bactria, \*p.\* 139. Apollodotus and Menander, \*p.\* 140. Demetrius occupies Sind, \*p.\* 142. Demetrias-Patala, \*p.\* 142. The eastern advance, \*p.\* 143. Menander occupies Pātaliputra, \*p.\* 145. The southern advance, \*p.\* 147. Apollodotus occupies Barygaza and Ujjain, \*p.\* 148. Demetrius’ plan, \*p.\* 152. ‘Asia’ and ‘India’, \*p.\* 153. \*Rex Indorum\*, \*p.\* 154. Demetrius’ realm, \*p.\* 155. His return to Bactria, \*p.\* 156. Re-organisation of sub-kings, \*p.\* 156. Demetrius II, \*p.\* 157. Pantaleon, \*p.\* 157. Agathocles, \*p.\* 157. Hecate of the Three Ways, \*p.\* 158. Agathocles’ coinage, \*p.\* 158. Coinage of Taxila, \*p.\* 161. Apollodotus, \*p.\* 163. Menander, \*p.\* 166. The meaning of the ‘conquest’ of India, \*p.\* 167. Alexander in India, \*p.\* 167. The ‘free’ peoples, \*p.\* 169. Kambojas, \*p.\* 170. Asvaka, \*p.\* 170. Sibi, \*p.\* 170. Madras, \*p.\* 171. Sauvīras, \*p.\* 171. Abhiras, \*p.\* 171. Greeks and Buddhism, \*p.\* 172. Brahmans, \*p.\* 173. Pushyamitra, \*p.\* 175. Greeks and Buddhists, \*p.\* 175. The Asoka-Avadāna, \*p.\* 177. Demetrius as King of Justice, \*p.\* 178. His Taxila (Sirkap), \*p.\* 179. Nature of the ‘conquest’, \*p.\* 180. The bilingual coinage, \*p.\* 181. Demetrius’ policy and kingship, \*p.\* 181. ### [c2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c2.2) Chapter V. ANTIOCHUS IV AND EUCRATIDES ### [c2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c2.3) Antiochus: the lost chapter, \*p.\* 183. His career, \*p.\* 184. Babylon, \*p.\* 187. His plan, \*p.\* 188. Coinage, \*p.\* 191. Egypt, \*p.\* 192. His triumph, \*p.\* 193. His Charisteria at Babylon, \*p.\* 195. His cousin Eucratides, \*p.\* 196. Eucratides’ chronology, \*p.\* 197. Eucratides’ conquest of eastern Iran, \*p.\* 199. Death of Demetrius, \*p.\* 200. The Euthydemid propaganda, \*p.\* 201. The reason of Eucratides’ success, \*p.\* 202. His position, \*p.\* 203. The two Seleucid realms, \*p.\* 203. The Dioscuri, \*p.\* 204. Antiochus’ celebrations, \*p.\* 206. Eucratideia, \*p.\* 207. Plato, \*p.\* 209. Eucratides invades India, \*p.\* 212. Premature death of Antiochus, \*p.\* 215. Death of Apollodotus, \*p.\* 215. Eucratides King of Kings, \*p.\* 217. Chronology, \*p.\* 218. His recall to Bactria, \*p.\* 219. His defeat and death, \*p.\* 219. Mithridates I and Bactria, \*p.\* 222. ## Linked texts (1) - [Aśokāvadāna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.divyavadana.asokavadana) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c2) · Pramāṇa