[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) › c3 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c3: Chapter VI. MENANDER AND HIS KINGDOM pages 225-269 The Greeks in Bactria and India c3 - **Language:** English ### Chapter VI. MENANDER AND HIS KINGDOM pages 225-269 ### [c3.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c3.1) Menander sole king in India, \*p. 225\*. Chronology, \*p. 225\*. Agathocleia, \*p. 226\*. Extent of his rule, \*p. 227\*. Antimachus II his sub-king, \*p. 229\*. Ptolemy the geographer, \*p. 230\*. The fragments of a list of the Greek provinces, \*p. 232\*. Sind and the South, \*p. 233\*. Gandhāra, \*p. 237\*. The East, \*p. 238\*. The Indian peoples, \*p. 239\*. Nature and organisation of the Greek provinces, \*p. 240\*. The towns, \*p. 243\*. Ptolemy’s list east of the Jhelum, \*p. 245\*. Bucephala, \*p. 245\*. Iomousa, \*p. 246\*. Sāgala, \*p. 247\*. Greek poetry, \*p. 248\*. Military colonies, \*p. 249\*. Mathurā, \*p. 251\*. The cave inscriptions, \*p. 254\*. Indian citizens of Greek cities, \*p. 256\*. Nature of Menander’s kingdom, \*p. 258\*. Trade, \*p. 260\*. Coinage, \*p. 261\*. Menander as a Chakravartin, \*p. 263\*. ‘Weds Athena’, \*p. 265\*. His legend, \*p. 265\*. The Milindapañha, \*p. 266\*. His attitude to Buddhism, \*p. 268\*. ### [c3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c3.2) Chapter VII. THE NOMAD CONQUEST OF BACTRIA \*pages 270-311 ### [c3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c3.3) Heliocles, \*p. 270\*. Eucratides II, \*p. 271\*. Antialcidas, \*p. 273\*. Causes of the nomad invasion, \*p. 274\*. The trek of the Yueh-chi, \*p. 276\*. The Sai-wang, \*p. 277\*. Ferghana (Ta-yuan), \*p. 278\*. Chang-k’ien, \*p. 279\*. His Report: how far his, \*p. 280\*. The mythical Saca conquest of Bactria, \*p. 283\*. The Greek accounts, \*p. 284\*. Asii, \*p. 284\*. Tochari, \*p. 285\*. The Yueh-chi a composite horde, \*p. 286\*. Language and race of the Asii, \*p. 287\*. Of the Tochari, \*p. 288\*. Sacaraucae, \*p. 291\*. Pasiani-Parsii, \*p. 292\*. Chronology of the conquest of Bactria (Ta-hia), \*p. 294\*. The Ta-hia = Tochari myth, \*p. 296\*. Origin of the name Ta-hia, \*p. 297\*. Parallels to their recognition by Chang-k’ien, \*p. 297\*. His account of them, \*p. 298\*. The ‘walled towns’, \*p. 299\*. Reconstruction of the conquest, \*p. 299\*. Origin and meaning of the Alexander-descents, \*p. 301\*. Coinage under the Yueh-chi, \*p. 303\*. The writing of Saca, \*p. 305\*. The ‘perishing’ of the Sacaraucae, \*p. 306\*. The ‘heavenly horse’, \*p. 308\*. The last Greek, \*p. 310\*. Chang-k’ien and his legend, \*p. 311\*. ## Linked texts (1) - [Milindapañha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.milindapanha) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c3) · Pramāṇa