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http://www.maharashtratourism.gov.in/mtdc/Default.aspx?strpage=Museums_Maharashtra.html

"The two museums at Kolhapur and Ter together have priceless antiquities reflecting on the ancient past of Maharashtra and its contacts with the Roman world. Ter, ancient Tagara, today a neglected villaged in the Osmanbad district was an international marketing centre as early as the 1st century A.D. Of great value is the famous ivory figure of Shree Laxmi. At Kolhapur, is a hoard of beautiful bronzes, among which is a beautiful figure of the Greek Sea God, Poseidon."

http://www.livius.org/man-md/mauryas/mauryas.html

"After the death of Ashoka, the Mauryan empire declined. In c.240, the Bactrian leaders -who were of Greek descent- revolted from their Seleucid overlords, and although king Antiochus III the Great restored order in 206, the Bactrian leader Euthydemus declared himself independent within a decade. Not much later, the Graeco-Bactrian kingdom expanded into Drangiana and Gandara. The invasion of the Punjab, which took place in 184, revitalized the Greek culture in the region south of the Hindu Kush mountain range, where Euthydemus' son Demetrius created a new kingdom, consisting of Gandara, Arachosia, the Punjab and even a part of the Ganges valley... when king Menander reunited the Indo-Greek kingdom in c.125, the westerners were able to invade the heartland of the already contracted Mauryan empire, and even captured Patna. Never has a Greek army reached a more eastern point.... King Menander converted and became something of a Buddhist saint. One of the holy texts of Buddhism is called Milindapañha, 'Questions of Menander'."


3 posted on 12/11/2006 9:19:58 AM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, November 16, 2006 https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Good one Civ!


4 posted on 12/11/2006 10:26:46 AM PST by xarmydog
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