[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 # The Greeks in Bactria and India Seleucids and Bactria, Diodotids and Euthydemids, Demetrius's conquest of India, Menander, Indo-Greek kingdoms, the Śaka conquest; coins, Greek and Indian sources. - **Language:** English - **Author:** [W. W. Tarn](https://indike.org/pramana/person/tarn-ww) - **Extent:** 3,415 passages, 255,148 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · 1st ed., Cambridge 1938; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini 3.8… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (W. W. Tarn †1957) ## Contents - [c1 Front matter](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c1) — 22 parts - [c2 Chapter IV. Demetrius and the Invasion of India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c2) — 3 parts - [c3 Chapter VI. MENANDER AND HIS KINGDOM pages 225-269](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c3) — 3 parts - [c4 Chapter VIII. GREEKS AND SACAS IN INDIA pages 312-350](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c4) — 18 parts - [c5 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c5) — 20 parts - [c6 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c6) — 5 parts - [c7 Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c7) — 71 parts - [c8 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c8) — 17 parts - [c9 Part I. The Background in the Middle East](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9) — 2 parts - [c10 Part II. Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10) — 7 parts - [c11 Conclusion](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c11) — 13 parts - [c12 Excursus: The Milindapañha and Pseudo-Aristeas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c12) — 148 parts - [c13 Appendix 1. Monograms and Find-Spots](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c13) — 37 parts - [c14 Appendix 2. The Names in -ηνη](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c14) — 31 parts - [c15 Appendix 3. Agathocles' Pedigree Coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c15) — 37 parts - [c16 Appendix 4. The Yuga-Purāṇa of the Gārgī Saṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c16) — 45 parts - [c17 Appendix 5. Demetrius in the Hāthigumphā Inscription of Khāravela](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c17) — 19 parts - [c18 Appendix 6. Alexandria of the Caucasus and Kapisa](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c18) — 20 parts - [c19 Appendix 7. Antiochus IV and the Temple of Nanaia](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c19) — 24 parts - [c20 Appendix 8. A Sealing from Seleuceia](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c20) — 15 parts - [c21 Appendix 9. Ki-pin (Kophen) and ‘Arachosia’](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c21) — 38 parts - [c22 Appendix 10. Ta-yuan](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c22) — 40 parts - [c23 Appendix 11. Chorasmia](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c23) — 19 parts - [c24 Appendix 12. Ormuz: A Lost Kingdom](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c24) — 33 parts - [c25 Appendix 13. Σάγαλα ἡ καὶ Εὐθυμηδεία](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c25) — 12 parts - [c26 Appendix 14. The Supposed Oxo-Caspian Trade-Route](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c26) — 13 parts - [c27 Appendix 15. The Oxus Question To-day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c27) — 18 parts - [c28 Appendix 16. The Era of the Moga Copperplate from Taxila](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c28) — 60 parts - [c29 Appendix 17. The Hermaeus-Kujula Kadphises Coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c29) — 30 parts - [c30 Appendix 18. San and Rho](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c30) — 14 parts - [c31 Appendix 19. Pāndava-Pāndu and Pāndhya](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c31) — 12 parts - [c32 Appendix 20. The Chinese Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c32) — 9 parts - [c33 Appendix 21. The Greek Names of the Tochari](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c33) — 43 parts - [c34 Addenda](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c34) — 4 parts - [c35 Index I. General](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c35) — 55 parts - [c36 Index II. Principal Greek and Latin Passages Commented On](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c36) — 33 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) · Pramāṇa