Note 1 — CHAP. X.
Reading edition
: A lucid account of the principal Pali works in connection with religion will be found in the Appendix to HARDY'S Manual of Buddhism, p. 509, and in HARDY'S Eastern Manichian, pp. 27, 315.
2: The title of this popular work has given rise to a very curious conjecture of Turnour's. It professes to contain the dialectic controversies of Nagannoa, through whose instrumentality Buddhism was introduced into Kashmir, with Milinda, who was the Raja of an adjoining country, called Sagala, near the junction of the rivers Ravi and Chenab. These dicussions must have taken place about the year B.C. 44. Now Sagala is identical with Sangala, the people of which, according to Arrian, made a bold resistance to the advance of Alexander the Great beyond the Hydraotes; and it has been supposed by Sir Alexander Burnes to have occupied the site of Lahore. Its sovereign, therefore, who embraced the doctrines of Buddha, was probably an Asiatic Greek, and TURNOUR suggests that the "Yons" or "Yonicas" who, according to the Milinda-prasna, formed his body-guard, were either Greeks or the descendants of Greeks from Ionia.—Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. v. 523; HARDY'S Manual of Buddhism, p. 512; REINAUD, Mémoire sur l'Inde, p. 65.