The Greeks in Bactria and India c35.31

c35.31

Macedonia, 301, 307; of the Antigonids, 70, 79, 143, 411, 437; a march state, 409, 413 Macedonian months, 64-5, 359, 494 Macedonians, 128, 202 Macedonopolis, 11 Madhyamikā, 150-1, 155, 170, 180, 230, 258, 459 Madras, 169, 170-1, 178, 247, 512 Magadha, 129, 155, 237 Magnesia, battle of, 82, 83, 92, 132, 186, 207 Magnesia on the Maeander, 6, 68, 75 Magnesia under Sipylos, 9 n., 74 Mahābhārata, 87 n., 107, 165, 167, 171, 269, 376, 386, 406; Greek knowledge of, 47, 379-81, 512 Mahādeva, 325, 406 n. Mahāyāna, 379, 406, 408 Maikene, 443 Maitona, 11 Malabar, 372-3 Mālavas, 169, 172 Mālavikāgnimitra, 228 n., 374 Malli, 169, 172 Malva, 151, 172, 325, 335, 501 Mānasāra, 419 n. Mandali hoard, 362 Manikyala, 135 Mankura, 422 Mara, 29, 39 Marco Polo, 302-3, 448-9 Mardi, 285 Margiane, 2 n., 3, 102, 232, 285; sub-kingdom of Antimachus, 88-90, 438 Margus, 88-9; river, 479 Massagetae, 81, 91, 105, 117, 120, 278, 281, 469, 471, 479-80; and the invasion of Parthia, 275, 292, 294, 306-7 Mathurā, 61, 145, 159, 165, 180, 227, 238-9, 359, 406, 453-4, 458; king of, 169, 259; ἡ τῶν θεῶν, 245, 251-3; lost to Greeks, 323-4; art of, 396-8, 404-5, 407 Mathurā (the southern), 511 Matiani, 285 Mauakes, 381, 496. See Maues Maues, 91, 314-16, 344-5, 348-9, 400, 402-3; chronology, 233, 335-6, 494-9, 501; forms of name, 496; victory on Indus, 322; takes Taxila and Gandhāra, 321-2; and Kapisa, 332-3; contemporary with Telephus, 332, 496-8; ‘Great King of Kings’, 322, 500; fleet defeated on Jhelum, 329; takes and loses Ujjain, 335; death, 330; date of death, 335; break-up of his empire, 336; coins, 321, 357; coin-types, 135, 159, 163-4; the Buddha coin, 400-3 Maurya dynasty, 130, 152-3, 366 Mauryan empire, 129, 133, 152-4, 169, 410 Media, 56, 112, 122, 218-19, 443 Megalopolis, 446-7, 450 Megasthenes, 41, 107-8, 129, 154, 429 Mēn, 31 Menander: chronology, 133-4; birthplace, 99, 310, 420-2, 432-3; not royal, 141, 421; Demetrius’ general, 140-2, 166-7, 182, 411; advance to Pātaliputra, 143-6, 155, 453-5; abandonment of the Middle Country, 200, 212, 454; new frontier, 227-8; checks Eucratides, 216-17; recovers and rules Gandhāra but not Paropamisadae, 217, 229, 520; treaty with Eucratides, 217, 230; king, 225; marries Agathocleia, ib.; extent of empire, 227-30, 458; sub-kings, 229, 319, 468; the satrapies in the south, 232-7; in Gandhāra, 237-8; east of the Jhelum, 238-40; his Council, 259, 418-19, 423; organisation, 240-1; strategi and meridarchs, 241-2; capital, 247, see Sāgala; Greek towns and settlements, 243-51; Greek literature, 247-9, 378, 380; trade, 260-1; nature of his empire, 258-60, 411; Indian citizens, 255-7 (see Demetrias in Sind); dating by his regnal years, 520; Soter, 175-6, 178; rules with equity, 263; a Dharmaraja, 263; a Chakravartin, 217, 263-4; ‘weds Athena’, 265; attitude to Buddhism, 268-9; no Buddhist symbolism on his coins, 262-3; a Greek king, 261, 392; death, 228; date of death, 226, 520; his house, 312, 356; a Menander literature, 434-5; coins, 149, 156, 217, 225, 319, 356, 440-1; mint, 438; coin-types: Athena Alkis, 161, 269, 318, 330, 349; others, 164, 262-3; notices, 47-8, 98, 101, 135, 163, 165-6, 351, 412 Menander legend, the: a great Buddhist monarch, 265-8, 436; in the Milindapañha, 414-15, 432-6; in Indo-China, 267, 364; stories transferred to him, 266-7; his funeral, 264 Menander (writer of comedies), 384-5 Menander (wrestler), 355, 389 Menapia, 120 n. Menedemium, 11