![]() King Milinda and his bodyguard of "500 Yonas" in the Milinda Panha.The mention of the "Yona king Aṃtalikitasa" in the Heliodorus pillar in Vidisha (110 BCE).The mention of the "Yona king Aṃtiyoka" in the Edicts of Ashoka (280 BCE).The mention of the "Yauna" in the Persepolis Administrative Archives (550–333 BC). ![]() Įxamples of direct association of these terms with the Greeks include: The Yona are mentioned in the Ashoka inscriptions, along with the Kambojas, as two societies where there are only nobles and slaves. Yavana appears for instance, in the Mahabharata, while Yona appears in texts such as the Sri Lankan chronicle Mahavamsa. "Yona" and "Yavana" are transliterations of the Greek word for " Ionians" ( Ancient Greek: Ἴωνες < Ἰάoνες < *Ἰάϝoνες), who were probably the first Greeks to be known in the East.īoth terms appear in ancient Sanskrit literature. The word Yona in Pali and the Prakrits, and the analogue "Yavana" in Sanskrit, are words used in Ancient India to designate Greek speakers. ![]() Yavana Kingdom alongside other locations of kingdoms and republics mentioned in the Indian epics or Bharata Khanda.
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