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India’s Independence Inspired by Greek Ideas

Greek Reporter 15 Aug 2024
In Benares, Demetrios’ counselor and adviser was the administrator of the king of Benares, Sital Prasad Singh ... Greek King of India Menander I Soter ... Indians call the great King MenanderMilinda.” Greek Actor in Indian Parliament.
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Ancient Greeks of India: The Final Stand of Hellenism

Greek Reporter 07 Aug 2024
King Xerxes, for one, deported Branchidae, the priests of the spring of Didyma in Ionia, to Asia ... Indians call the great King MenanderMilinda,” and he is known as the great Buddhist Greek king of Punjab who first occupied Sagala.
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The Story of the Indo-Greek King Who Embraced Buddhism

Greek Reporter 25 Jul 2024
King Milinda asks questions ... The text recounts the Socratic-like dialogue between a Yona (Greek) king, Milinda (Menander), and a Buddhist monk from Gandhāra, Nāgasena, who himself may have been of Indo-Greek origin.
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The Ancient Greeks and Kashmir

Greek City Times 12 Jun 2024
Indian literary sources, ranging from the Milinda Panha, recount a dialogue between Buddhist sage Nagasena and King Menander I (155-130 B.C.)—one of the few Indo-Greek kings mentioned in both Greco-Roman and Indian sources.
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Menander, the Greek King of India

Greek Reporter 01 Apr 2024
Greek king of India Menander I Soter ... King Menander began as a Greek general of King Demetrius of the Euthydemid dynasty ... The Milinda-panha, a Buddhist text, purports to record a dialogue between Buddhist sage Nagasena and king Menander.
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Greece and India: History, perspectives and IMEC

Greek City Times 21 Mar 2024
The most famous of the Greek kings was Menander, who converted to Buddhism and is known by the Buddhist Milinda Panha, "Questions of King Milinda", as they transliterated his name into Indian. Milinda Panha is an Indian epic (author unknown).
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How Ancient Greeks Spread Buddhism to the Known World

Greek Reporter 18 Feb 2024
Greek King of India Menander I Soter ... The Milinda Panho ‘Questions of King Menander’ is an ancient and much venerated book of the Buddhists, indeed so highly regarded as to be included by the Burmese in the Pali Canon.
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10 Formidable Monarchs Who Ruled Vast Empires in Ancient Asia

Ancient Origins 21 Mar 2023
In fact, the kingdoms of Ancient Asia gave rise to some of the most dynamic kings of antiquity ... From Cruel King to Benevolent Buddhist ... One of those Greco-Bactrian kings was Milinda (or Menander) ... King Bimbisara is said to be the founder of his dynasty.
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Buddhism along the Silk Route

Bihar Times 12 Jul 2022
Among the Greek rulers, the account of King Menander (also known as Milinda) is found in the Pali Buddhist literature called Milinda Panha (Question of Milinda) ... It says the King made donations to ...
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