From: shivkhokra
Message: 64814
Date: 2009-08-18
>No. Harivamsa for example that is quoted in the article you mentioned is considered a part of Mahabharata. As I have said in other posts the yavana king in Mahabharata is Bhagdatta and he is the ruler of Pragjyotishpur (modern Assam). No Greeks ever ruled Assam. This reference of yavan is to an indic-people and not to foreigners.
> --- On Tue, 8/18/09, shivkhokra <shivkhokra@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@... s.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@ ...> wrote:
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> > Check out �http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Indo-greek "Indo-Greeks"
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> > In Indian literature, the Indo-Greeks are described as�Yavanas�(in�Sanskrit),[134] [135][136]�or�Yonas�(in�Pali)[137]�both thought to be transliterations of "Ionians". In the Harivamsa the "Yavana" Indo-Greeks are qualified, together with the�Sakas,�Kambojas, Pahlavas and Paradas as�Kshatriya-pungava�i.e. foremost among the Warrior caste, or�Kshatriyas. The�Majjhima Nikaya�explains that in the lands of the Yavanas and Kambojas, in contrast with the numerous Indian castes, there were only two classes of people,�Aryas�andDasas�(masters and slaves).
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> Yavana is an overloaded term and is used for many different people at different spochs in time, both indians (residents of northeastern India) and foreigners (Greeks, Mughals, British), and not just greeks.
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> Shivraj
> The point is that these Yavanas were all integrated into Hindu society, which is something you previously denied