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KINGS AND PEOPLES
83 with the Kambojas and Gandhāras. As for the Yonas, they were originally the people who came from Ionia. But the Macedonian and Bactrian Greeks, too, have been represented by the sanie name in all branches of Indian literature. The Yonas mentioned in the canonical Pali texts together with the Kambojas and Gandhāras may be presumed to have settled down subsequently in the extreme north-western part of India retaining their old customs and manners and maintaining their old religious beliefs. That they tried to maintain their separate entity as a people in these two respects is well attested by the evidence of all literary and epigraphical documents.?
In tho Epica a as well as in some of the later Buddhist texts, the Yavanas are associated with the Sakas. In the Rāmāyana (iv, 43.11-12), as pointed out by Dr. Raychaudhuri, the Yavanas are placed between the country of the Kurus and the Madras, and the Himalayas. The Baotrian king Milinda is said to have been born in a village in the island of Alasanda(Alexandria) with which the memory of the Yonas as Macedonian Greeks remained associated. The
1 Majjhima, ii, p. 149. 2 Rāmāyana, iv, 43.11-12; Mahabharata, i, 64.21. 8 20.g., tho Mahāvibhāgā sāstra. 4 Political History, 4th ed., p. 3.
5 Kalasigāma is the name of the locality mentioned in the Milindapanha, p. 83.
