Re: Indo-Aryans outside of India

That's what I was referring to. The Bactrian Greeks,
so I've read, had an armed incursion that reached as
far as Bangladesh. And classical maps show ports all
over the Indian Subcontinent and Sri Lanka


--- george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

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> --- Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> > By Hesychius's time, Greeks et al. knew about
> India
> > and would have been able to associate a
> > Sanskrit-sounding language with India.
>
> ****GK: Probably even long before Hesychius.
> Remember
> the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom. It had good contacts
> with
> the West until the rise of Parthia and for some time
> thereafter. And they knew a lot about India. In fact
> any time after Alexander's campaigns would be
> OK.****
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