King Milinda asks Questions, BC 140 (litho)

King Milinda asks Questions, Bc.140. After the deaths of Seleukos Nikator and Asoka, the great empires they controlled broke up, and on the north-western frontiers of India beyond the Indus the country (Baktria and Parthia) came to be held by rulers of Greek descent. Conspicuous amongst these was Menander of Kabul, who penetrated far into Northern India, and created a capital at Sagala (Sialkot in the Panjab). He had strong leanings towards Buddhism, and his religious disputations with the great teacher Nagasena have been preserved in a famous classic, the Milindapanha, the Questions of Milinda (Menander). Illustration for Hutchinson's History of the Nations (Hutchinson, c.1920). Note: Image has been digitally enhanced to facilitate repro.