History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.175

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⁷⁴² The Pauliśa-siddhānta is supposed by Weber to have been borrowed from Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century A. D.) Kern (preface (*Continued from last page*) to Br S p 49) rebukes Weber for proceeding to this conclusion on the slender ground of the identity of name, but Kern himself feels that Pauliśa was a Greek D. E Smith in 'History of Mathematics' (ed. of 1922, vol. I p. 145) avers that Greek scholars settled in India after Alexander's time. In my paper on 'Yavaneśvara and Utpala' contributed to the J B B. R. A S vol. 30 parts I and 2 pp. 1-8 I refer to two extensive works on astrology in several thousands of fine Upajāti and Indravajrā verses composed by Sphujidhvaja and Mīnarāja, both of whom claim to be the overlords of Yavanas. The Besnagar column Vaisnava inscription on the Garuḍadhvaja in honour of Vāsudeva by Heliodora, a devotee of Vāsudeva and son of Diya and hailing from Taksaśīlā (Taxila) who was a Yona (Yavana) ambassador of king Antalikita (Antalkidas) to the court of king Bhāgabhadra shows how even high-placed Greeks became devotees of Vāsudeva, settled in India and got the inscription engraved not in Greek nor in bilingual characters, but in the Indian language and *lipi* Vide W. W Tarn in 'Greeks in Bactria and India' pp. 313-14, 380-81, 390-91 for Greeks knowing Indian languages, for many Greeks becoming Indianized and J. R. A. S. for 1909 pp. 1053-1056, 1087-1094, J. B, B R. A S vol 23 p 104 and I. H. Q vol. VIII (for 1932) p. 611 for the Besnagar Inscription.