Yavana; a peculiar Pali toponym

A short and interesting article as to how various forms of the Pali term
"Yavana" seems to have been applied to Greece, Northern Thailand, and also
Northern Vietnam:

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/TXT/letters/L1214-2.htm

As always, Vickery manages to insinuate his political detestation for his
sources into the argument: "Headley, working in a reactionary American
environment (The Catholic University of America, Washington DC) in the
1970s, apparently decided to adopt a late and minor usage of yavana to favor
the Cambodian chauvinist usage of yuon."  Even Etymology is a politically
charged phenomenon!

E.M.

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