Historical Geography of Ancient India c6.745

c6.745

According to Patañjali’s *Mahābhāṣya* (3. 3. 2, p. 246—Kielhorn’s Ed.—*Aruṇad Yavanaḥ Sāketam; Aruṇad Yavano Madhyamikām*), Sāketa or Ayodhyā as well as Madhyamikā (near Chitor) were besieged by a certain Yavana or Greek. There was a conflict between the Śuṅga prince Vasumitra and the Yavana on the southern bank of the Sindhu. The extension of Yavana power to the interior of India was at first thwarted by the Śuṅgas. In western India the last vestiges of Yavana power were swept away by the rising ascendency of the Andhras or Sātavāhanas of the Deccan. In the north-west of India the Yavanas were finally swept away by the onrush of the Parthians.