Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta c. AD 335 380 , the Arjunayanas figure among the autonomous ... Buddha Prakash, the Arjunayanas are mentioned as Prajjunakas in Chanakya Kautiliya s Arthashastra .... C. Majumdar . Origin of Arjunayanas Origin of Arjunayanas is shrouded in obscurity. They make their first ... is indeed the Arigaeum Arigaion of Arrian, then the probable origin of the Arjunayanas can possibly ... probably known as Arjunavanas, Arjunavayanas or Arjunayanas from Arjunava . A variant of Sanskrit Arjunayana ... the Arjunayanas Arjunavanas as close neighbors of the Gandhara s which fact possibly alludes ... Arjunavanas Arjunayanas? It is conceivable to infere that after suffering serious defeat ... tantra text Mahamayuri . Arjunayanas of the coins have been identified by Dr Fleet with the Kalachuri ... other scholars like Dr Buddha Prakash however like to connect Arjunayanas to Pandava hero Arjuna. Coins of Arjunayanas The findspot of Arjunayana coin s indicate their territory within the triangle ... like by Dr V. S. Agarwala, the possible origin and descent of Arjunayanas can possibly be traced to this Arigaion ... of the Indian texts. Like Arjunayanas, the Ashvakas Aspasioi and Assakenoi were also a republican ..., Nadadigana IV.1.99. ref That the Arjunayanas were devotees of god Siva also alludes to their possible connections with the Swat Kunar valley, the land of the Ashvakas. Arjunayanas and Pandava Arjuna 2nd century coin evidence attests that the Arjunayanas and Yaudheyas were neighborly tribes and had ... had descended from, Yaudheya, son of Yudhishtra. And similarly, it has also been speculated that Arjunayanas .... Similarly, there is no basis, whatsoever, in the speculation that Arjunayanas may have descended ... the Yaudheyas as well as the Arjunayanas to the heroic Pandava lineage. The Arjunayanas are not mentioned ... of Ayudhajivi Samghas of P ini , ref Ashtadhyayi V.3.114.. ref the Arjunayanas don t find any ... ref Arthashastra 3.18.08. ref are same as Arjunayanas or Arjunayanakas . ref Allahabad Pillar Inscription ... more details
their own coins. The Arjunayanas area of Mathura and Yaudheyas mention military victories on their coins Victory of the Arjunayanas , Victory of the Yaudheyas . During the 1st century BC, the Trigartas ... more details
Infobox Former Country native name conventional long name Indo Greek Kingdom common name Indo Greek Kingdom continent Asia region country India era Ancient history Antiquity status event start year start 180 BC date start event1 date event1 event end year end AD 10 date end p1 Greco Bactrian Kingdom flag p1 s1 Indo Scythians flag s1 image flag flag type image coat image map Indo Greeks 100bc.jpg image map caption Indo Greek Kingdoms in 100 BC. capital Alexandria in the Caucasus br Sirkap Taxila br Sagala Sialkot br Pushkalavati Peucela common languages Greek language Greek Greek alphabet br Pali Kharoshthi script br Sanskrit , Prakrit Br hm script Brahmi script br Possibly Aramaic religion Buddhism br Ancient Greek religion br Hinduism br Zoroastrianism government type Monarchy leader1 Apollodotus I year leader1 180 160 BC leader2 Strato II year leader2 25 BC AD 10 title leader Indo Greek Kingdom List of the Indo Greek kings and their territories King legislature Indo Greek articles The Indo Greek Kingdom or Graeco Indian Kingdom ref As in other compounds such as African American , the area of origin usually comes first, and the area of arrival comes second, so that Greco Indian is normally a more accurate nomenclature than Indo Greek . The latter however has become the general usage, especially since the publication of Narain s book The Indo Greeks . ref covered various parts of the northwest regions of the Indian subcontinent during the last two centuries BC, and was ruled by more than 30 Hellenistic civilization Hellenistic kings, ref Euthydemus I was, according to Polybius http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?lookup Plb. 11.34 11.34 , a Magnetes Magnesian Greek people Greek . His son, Demetrius I of Bactria Demetrius I , founder of the Indo Greek kingdom, was therefore of Greek ethnicity at least by his father. A marriage treaty was arranged for the same Demetrius with a daughter of the Seleucid Empire Seleucid ruler Antiochus III who had some Persian peopl ... more details
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