The Greeks in Bactria and India c35.23
The Greeks in Bactria and India c35.23
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’Iάfoves, 296, 417, 520 Iauna, 417 Idumea, 425 n. Igdy, 491 Inapaei, 516 India: Greek historians, 44-8; dividing line in evidence about, 351; as a political term, 154; Greek conquest of, chap. IV passim; Greek provinces, 232-8, 240, 445; Greek cities and settlements, 243-52, 352-3; organisation, 240-2, 358-9; an Indian meridarch, 242, 358; Indian citizens, 255-7, 357; Indian mintmasters, 356-7; Greek stories about, 252-3; gymnosophists, see Alexander; survival of Greek language, 353-6; relations between Greeks and Indians, 375-6; Indian knowledge of Greek and Greek literature, 378-9, 432-5; Greek knowledge of Indian language and literature, 47, 380-1, 387, 391, 512; question of the drama, 381-5; some possible contacts, 385-7; Greek inscriptions in Kharoshthi, 388-9; Greeks and Indian religions, 391, 393, and see Bhāgavata, Bhakti, Brahmanism, Buddha-statue(s), Buddhism, Jains, Siva, Vishnu; trade: the gold question, 106-8; the sea route, 368-70; with China and the East, 338, 363-6; with the West generally, 112, 330-1, 361-2, 366-8, 483-4; with Seleuceia, 260-1, 362-3; in pepper, 370-3; in parchment, 373; in girls, 373-5 Indian coinages, 150-1, 160-3, 324-5 Indian months, 502, 520 Indo-China, 267, 364-5 Indo-Macedonian calendars, 359 Indo-Parthia, 49. See Suren, kingdom of the ’Indo-Scythia’, 50, 232-3, 320-2, 502 Indragnidatta, 255, 257, 371-3 Indus, 90-1, 93, 142, 216, 232, 236, 321-2, 501; as boundary of India, 96, 100 Indus Delta, 171, 233, 244 Iomousa, 246-7, 258