The Ancient Geography of India. I. The Buddhist Period, including the Campaigns of Alexander, and the Travels of Hwen-Thsang c8.s4.13

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To explain this translation he supposes Dhanukakata to be a Greek, with a Greek name, and to have also a Hindu name which he “probably assumed when he embraced Buddhism, or on adoption into some Hindu family, when names also are changed.” But by taking Dhanukaka as the name of a place, this inscription may be rendered without any forced assumption of a second name. My rendering is,—