[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) › c8.13 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c8.13 The Greeks in Bactria and India c8.13 - **Language:** English ### [c8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c8.13) these phenomena, except the art of Gandhāra (which stands on a different footing), appear to have one common characteristic: they are native arts which borrowed, and sometimes misapplied, a certain modicum of Greek form and ornamentation.¹ They furnish a subject of very great interest in itself; but they have little to do with the history of the Greeks of the Farther East, and even less with the Greek spirit. - [Previous: c8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c8.11) - [Next: c8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c8.14) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c8.13) · Pramāṇa