Rawlinson, H. G. Intercourse between India and the western world from the earliest times to the fall of Rome

(Cambridge :  University Press,  1916.)

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Dynasties of the Panjab             85

caves of Karla and Nasik, but they bear Indian
titles, and were doubtless Greek in little more
than name. Perhaps the latest reference to them
occurs in the inscription of the Andhra queen
Balasri, 144 A.D., who boasts that she rooted
the " Sakas, Yavanas and Pahlavas," out of the
Deccan for ever^.
 

APPENDIX

GREEK  AND  SEMI-GREEK  RULERS  IN   BAKTRIA
AND  THE  PANJAB

(This list is entirely conjectural. Semi-Greek includes all
kings minting coins which have Greek inscriptions. The
various theories on this vexed subject may be found in
Gardner's Catalogue of Greek and Indo-Scythian Coins in the
B.M., V. A. Smith's Early History of India, Ch. viii.-ix.,
Duff's Chronology of India, Barnett's Chronology in An¬
tiquities of India, pp. 36-94, and articles in the J.R.A.S.
and other Oriental Journals.)

I.    Greek Kings of Baktria

Diodotus I, 250 B.C.            Diodotus II, 245 B.C.

Euthydemus I, 230 B.C.

II.    Greek Kings of Baktria and Sagala

Demetrius, 200 b.c.             Eukratides, 165 B.C.

Heliokles, 156 B.C.

^ Karla Inscr. No. 17 {Archaeological Survey of Western
India, ed. Biihler, iv. 109.) Her son Gautamiputra actually
carried this out.
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