262 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVHUI. 
2nd century B.C. and is said to have invaded India and pene- 
trated far into the interior. From Strabo it appears that he 
nquered aconsiderable portion of Northern India, presumably 
including Kabul, Punjab and Sindh. He is also credited with 
founding a city named after his father Euthydémos which ac- 
cording to Ptolemy! is the same as Sagala (Sakala). After he 
was driven from Bactria and other Western pile by 
arin ay city perhaps continued to be the stronghold 
is dynasty which we shall call the hihi oneadl line of 
Baas The abate of this dynasty seems to have a long 
and illustrious career and, besides Euthyvdemia, is credited to 
have founded several other cities.” He has been supposed to 
Chaucer’s Knightes Tale® and to be identical with the Yavana 
King Dattamitra mentioned in the Mahabharata* There is 
also the greatest amount of likelihood that the Greek invader 
mentioned in the Mahabhasya of Patafijali and in the 
Malavikagnimitram of Kalidasa whom the Sungas claim to 
have encountered and routed was Demetrius as Professor 
Bhandarkar and Dr. Raychaudhuri suggest and not Menander. : 
the synchronism of Demetrius with Eukratides who was 
himself a contemporary of Mithridates 1 (c. 171-136 B.C.) 
that Demetrius was a contemporary of Pushyamutra Sunga 
(c. 185-149 B.C). Now the invasion took place surely during 
the early period of the reign of Pushyamitra when he was 
still a sendpaii and when he had not vet performed his 
Agvamedha sacrifice—possibly before 150 B.C. But, there 
is no place before this date for Menander in the Sakala 
region as we shall see later on. This finds additional support 
from the testimony of the Milindapatho that the Yona king 
Milinda flourished in the 5th century after the Great Nirvana 
(parinibbanato patcavassasate atilkante).7 
pollodotos was probably the second king of this dynasty. 
We aes that Eukratides and Apollodotos were contemporaries 
from the ss of the latter’s Kapisa coins by the former.” 



| Ind. Ant. Vol. XIII, p. 350. The city was called Euthydemia. 
mun and other texts give the apparently erroneous reading Eu thy- 
2 JRA A.S. 1915, pgs Ind. Ant. Vol. XL, Foreign Hlements 7 
Hindu Population, p. 12. In my treatment of the History of the House 
ms Eu’ hydemos I have mainly accepted the views of Dr. H. C. Raychaw- 
uri. 
3 Rapson, Ancient India, p. 123. + Mahabharata I, 139, ee 
6 Smith, Early History of tille.: App. I, p. 213. Ind. Ant., Vol. XL 
p-ifn 
6 Strabo, (Falconer’s hart Book X1, section xi. I, 
: Edited by Trenkne 
8 Rapson, Ancient fadia, p. 133; J.R A.S. 1905, p. 785. 





