[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) › c9.s2.83 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.83 The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.83 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.83](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.83) ² One cannot take it as 321 (Ray \*op. cit.\*) or hesitate between the dates (Raychaudhuri \*op. cit.\*) for two reasons: (1) because in the preceding sentence in Justin Sandracottus gets his kingdom after a war with the Macedonian satraps, and the last one, Peithon of Gandhāra, did not leave India till 316; and (2) because from 316 to 312 Seleucus was a homeless fugitive, a captain in Ptolemy’s service who owned nothing but his sword. Incidentally, the passage proves that the Seleucid Era known to ‘Trogus’ source’, \*i.e.\* that used in Bactria and India, was the Macedonian form which began in autumn 312. - [Previous: c9.s2.82](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.82) - [Next: c9.s2.84](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.84) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.83](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.83) · Pramāṇa