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# The Greeks in Bactria and India c4: Chapter VIII. GREEKS AND SACAS IN INDIA pages 312-350

The Greeks in Bactria and India c4

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### Chapter VIII. GREEKS AND SACAS IN INDIA pages 312-350

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The later Greek kings, \*p. 312\*. The western group: Antialcidas, \*p. 313\*. Lysias, \*p. 314\*. Taxila and Gandhāra, \*p. 315\*. The eastern group: Agathocleia, \*p. 317\*. Strato I, \*p. 317\*. Apollodotus II, \*p. 318\*. A second Zoilus, \*p. 319\*. The Saca invasion, \*p. 320\*. Ptolemy’s ‘Indo-Scythia’, \*p. 320\*. Maues’ coins, \*p. 321\*. Conquers Taxila and Gandhāra, \*p. 323\*. Loss of Mathurā and the East, \*p. 323\*. Square letter-forms, \*p. 325\*. Hippostratus and Nicias on the Jhelum, \*p. 326\*. Their defeat of the Sacas, \*p. 328\*. Hippostratus as Great King, \*p. 329\*. Paropamisadae: Saca (Parsii) conquest of Kabul, \*p. 332\*. Maues at Kapisa, \*p. 332\*. Telephus, \*p. 333\*. Amyntas, \*p. 334\*. Date of Maues’ death, \*p. 335\*. Collapse of his empire, \*p. 336\*. The Greek revival: Hermaeus, \*p. 337\*. The Kujula Kadphises coins, \*p. 338\*. The Chinese account, \*p. 339\*. Reconstruction of the story of Hermaeus, \*p. 341\*. The Vonones coins, \*p. 344\*. The period of peace, \*p. 346\*. O-ik-san-li—Prophthasia, \*p. 347\*. Rise of Spalirises and his son Azes, \*p. 347\*. End of the two Greek kingdoms, \*p. 349\*.

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Chapter IX. The Greeks and India \*pages 351–408

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The change in the evidence, \*p. 351\*. The Kushans, \*p. 352\*. Duration of the Greek cities, \*p. 352\*. Duration of the Greek language, \*p. 353\*. The Indian mint officials, \*p. 356\*. The Indo-Macedonian calendars, \*p. 359\*. The Taxila of Gondophares, \*p. 359\*. Late Greek building, \*p. 360\*. Trade in the Greek period, \*p. 361\*. The Chinese trade, \*p. 363\*. Indo-China, \*p. 364\*. Khotan: the Greek seals, \*p. 365\*. Trade with the West, \*p. 366\*. Pliny’s four stages and the monsoons, \*p. 368\*. The pepper trade, \*p. 370\*. The Yavana merchants of the cave inscriptions, \*p. 371\*. Parchment, \*p. 373\*. The traffic in girls, \*p. 373\*. Interaction of Greek and Indian civilisations, \*p. 375\*. The Greek words in Sanscrit, \*p. 376\*. Indians and Greek literature, \*p. 378\*. Greeks and Indian literature, \*p. 380\*. Drama and mime, \*p. 381\*. Fable and folktale, \*p. 385\*. Science, \*p. 385\*. Inscriptions by Greeks in Brahmi and Kharoshthi, \*p. 387\*. Indianisation, \*p. 390\*. Greeks and Indian religions, \*p. 391\*. Nomenclature, \*p. 392\*. The Gandhāra school of art, \*p. 393\*. Chronology, \*p. 394\*. The controversy over the Buddha-statue, \*p. 395\*. Current theories, \*p. 397\*. The definite evidence of a coin of Maues, \*p. 400\*. Indian development of a Greek idea, \*p. 404\*. Bhakti, \*p. 406\*. The last phase, \*p. 407\*. Alexander-descents, \*p. 408\*.

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Conclusion \*pages 409–413

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\*Excursus.\* The Milindapañha and Pseudo-Aristeas \*p. 414\*

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\*Appendix\* 1. Monograms and find-spots \*p. 437\*

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” 2. The names in -ηνῃ \*p. 442\*

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” 3. Agathocles’ pedigree coins \*p. 446\*

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” 4. The Yuga-purāṇa of the Gārgī Samhitā \*p. 452\*

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” 5. Demetrius in the Hāthigumphā inscription of Khāravela \*p. 457\*

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” 6. Alexandria of the Caucasus and Kapisa \*p. 460\*

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” 7. Antiochus IV and the temple of Nanaia \*p. 463\*

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” 8. A sealing from Seleuceia \*p. 467\*

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” 9. Ki-pin (Kophen) and ‘Arachosia’ \*p. 469\*

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” 10. Ta-yuan \*p. 474\*

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” 11. Chorasmia \*p. 478\*

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” 12. Ormuz: a lost kingdom \*p. 481\*

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” 13. Σάγαλα ἡ καὶ Εὐθυμέδεια \*p. 486\*

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