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The Greeks in Bactria and India c35.13

The Greeks in Bactria and India c35.13

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c35.13

Damtāmitīyaka. See Datāmitīyaka Daphne. See Antiochus IV Dara, 46 Dardistan, 107 Darius I, 130, 142, 162, 446; tribute, 106–8; his inscriptions, 80, 88, 103, 105, 291, 475, 478 Darius III, 291, 303, 449 Darrah river, 114, 139–40 Darwaz, 302 Datāmitīyaka, 142 n., 257 n., 458 n. Dattāmitra (Demetrius), 142, 458 n. Dattāmitrī (Demetrius), 142, 257 Deinippos, 389, 392 n. Delhi, 140, 239 Delos, 329, 375, 419 n. Delphi, 132 Demetrias in Arachosia, 83, 93–4, 143, 208, 471 Demetrias-Pagasae, 98 Demetrias in Sind (Patala), 94, 171, 235, 243, 258, 320; foundation, 142; Indian citizens, 181, 257, 356–7, 418; trade, 362, 368, 371–3 Demetrias in Sogdiana, 118–19, 208 Demetrius: chronology, 92, 132–3; family, 73–6, 78; Alexander his model, 131–2, 152, 181, 410–11; Demetrius and Bactria, 115, 118, 128, 134, 143; conquers eastern Iran, 83, 92–5, 101; foundations in Iran, 83, 98, 118–19; invades India, 130–1; occupies Gandhāra and Taxila, 135; his communications, 139–40; Apollodotus and Menander his lieutenants, 140–2; occupies Sind, 142–3; foundations in India, 137, 142; extent of his realm, 155; Seleucid calendar, 359, 495; nature of his conquest, 180, 264; his plan, 152–4; ‘King of the Indians’, 154; ‘King of Justice’, 178–9, 181, 412, 454–5; the bilingual coinage, 137–9, 181; his capital, 179, 361; his policy, 180–1, 257, 260; nature of his kingdom, 181, 412; returns to Bactria, 156, 166; reorganises his sub-kings, 156–7; withdraws from the Middle Country, 146, 458–9; defeat and death, 198, 200, 203; his career, 410–13; in Indian documents, 165–7, 178, 454–5, 457–9; transcriptions of his name, 457, 458 and n.; notices of, 67, 82, 90, 195, 226, 314, 494; his coin-types, 93, 115, 131–2, 136, 164; his pedigree coin, 201; monograms, 439–40; his types copied by others, 239, 262, 314, 321–2, 328, 330 Demetrius II, 77–8, 134, 181; sub-king, 137; joint king, 157–8, 221; and Eucratides, 221–3; coins and types, 77, 132, 138–9, 157, 201, 213; the bilingual tetradrachm, 78, 132, 138, 158, 499 Demetrius the Besieger, 265–6, 348 Demetrius I (Seleucid), 205, 218–19, 262, 467–8 Demetrius II (Seleucid), 188, 199, 206, 273, 299 Demetrius of Byzantium, 51 Demetrius the librarian, 433–4 Demetrius (of Menander’s Council), 422, 433 Demetrius (name). See Timitra Demetriya (Demetrius), 458 and n. Demodamas, 41, 83–4, 111 Denipa, 389 Derbices, 81 Deriades, 329 n., 512 Devamantiya (Demetrius), 422, 458 n. Dhamma, 256, 263 Dhammarakkita, 148, 424 n. Dhammayavana, 255–6 Dharmamita (Demetrius), 178, 378, 454, 458 n. Dharmamitra (Demetrius), 188, 458 n. Dharmamitra (a monk), 390 Dhenukākā, 258, 372 Dhulcarnein, 303 Diadochou, 13 Dimata, 457 Dimetra, 457 Diodotus, 72–4, 89, 104, 114, 216, 312, 448; cult-name, 201 n., 447, 451 Diodotus II, 74 Diogenes of Seleuceia (Epicurean), 40 Diogenes of Seleuceia (Stoic), 40, 41 Diomedes, 315, 458 n. Dion, 313, 380, 392 n. Dionysius (king), 317–18, 356 Dionysius (poet), 381, 487 n., 512 Dionysopolis, the name, 11; in Gandhāra, 96, 99, 159, 244, 258, 390 Dionysus, 158–9, 392 Dioscorias, 112 Dioscuri (coin-type), 163, 197, 203–6, 272; pilei of, 163, 205, 313–14 Docimeum, 8 n., 11 Dohā metre, 380 Dorah Pass, 506 Dosarene, 443–4 Doura, 59, 62, 65, 355, 439; foundation, 7, 11; mortgage deed, 58, 63; succession law, 7, 8, 31, 37; population, 36–8 Dudial, 165