Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c44.s4.2

v2.c44.s4.2

Yavaneśvara and Sphujidhvaja were Indianised Greeks settled in the domains of the Western Kṣatrapas in Gujarat, Mālwā and Rajasthan. The date of Yavaneśvara corresponds to the middle of the reign of Rudradaman I, the greatest of the Western Śakas. Yavaneśvara’s Greek book on astrology and mineralogy (AD 150) was translated one century later into Sanskrit text Yavanajātaka by Sphujidhvaja (AD 270). An English translation of the same has been provided by David Pingree (1978).