16 Facts About Yavana Kingdom

Indo-Greek Kingdom, or Graeco-Indian Kingdom, known historically as the Yavana Kingdom, was a Hellenistic-era Greek kingdom covering various parts of Afghanistan and the northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent (parts of modern-day Pakistan and northwestern India).

Yavana Kingdom was founded when the Graeco-Bactrian king Demetrius invaded India from Bactria in 200 BC.

Yavana Kingdom got in his court for marriage the daughter of Seleucus Nicator, Berenice, and thus, he mixed the Indians and the Greeks.

The Greco-Bactrian Yavana Kingdom was founded when Diodotus I, the satrap of Bactria seceded from the Seleucid Empire around 250 BC.

Yavana Kingdom's advances were ultimately reclaimed by the Indo-Greek king Menander I,.

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Yavana Kingdom is described in the Milinda Panha as a convert to Buddhism and that he became an arhat whose relics were enshrined in a manner reminiscent of a Buddha.

Yavana Kingdom introduced a new coin type, with Athena Alkidemos on the reverse, which was adopted by most of his successors in the East.

Yavana Kingdom describes Greek cities there, one of them called Demetrias, probably in honour of the conqueror Demetrius.

Yavana Kingdom introduced a new coin type, with Athena Alkidemos on the reverse, which was adopted by most of his successors in the East.

Warrior figure, the Bharhut Yavana Kingdom, appeared prominently on a high relief on the railings of the stupa of Bharhut circa 100 BC.

Yavana Kingdom has the role of a dvarapala, a Guardian of the entrance of the Stupa.

Yavana Kingdom seems to have been married to an Indo-Greek princess named Machene.

One of the inscriptions mentions the donation of a tank by the Yavana Kingdom named Irila, while the other mentions the gift of a refectory to the Sangha by the Yavana Kingdom named Cita.

The era in question is not specified, but it is thought, following the discovery of the Bajaur reliquary inscription and a suggestion by Richard Salomon which has gained wide acceptance, that it is dated in the Yavana era beginning in 186 BC, and gives a date for the Buddha statue of c AD 143.

Name of the Yavana Kingdom king is not clear, but it contains three letters, and the middle letter can be read as ma or mi.

Yavana Kingdom made numerous sorties, and managed to vanquish 60, 000 enemies with 300 soldiers, and thus liberated after four months, he put India under his rule.