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    King Milinda: An Abridgement of the Milinda Pañha. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. p. 19. ISBN 978-81-208-0893-5. Milindapañha: The Questions of King Milinda (excerpts)...
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    Menander I (redirect from King Milinda)
    are recorded in the important Buddhist work, the Milinda Panha ("The Questions of King Milinda"; panha meaning "question" in Pali). After his death in...
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  • Panha can refer to: PANHA, an Iranian helicopter manufacturing company Milinda Panha (lit. 'Menander's Question'), an early Indian Buddhist text in the...
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  • from Sri Lanka, putting it somewhere in northern India. (See: [1]) The Milinda Panha is another famous non-canonical Pāli Buddhist text that describes the...
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  • extensive debating with a Buddhist monk, as recorded in the Buddhist text Milinda Panha. Sagala became a major centre for Buddhism under his reign, and prospered...
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    Pātaliputta. Nagasena is not known through other sources besides the Milinda Panha and this legend. Nāgasena is one of the Eighteen Arhats of Mahayana...
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    Greek King Menander I (Pali "Milinda") with the monk Nagasena comprises the Pali Buddhist work known as the Milinda Panha. Buddhist monks from the region...
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    future danger. — (Milinda Panha, Book III, Chap 7) The Milinda Panha also describes the structure of Menander's army: Now one day Milinda the king proceeded...
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    dialogues with the Buddhist monk Nagasena, transmitted to us in the Milinda Panha, which explain that he became a Buddhist arhat: "And afterwards, taking...
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  • texts such as the Mahavamsa, some stories of the Jataka tales, the Milinda Panha and the Ramayana. Though its exact location is unknown and remains a...
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    Heliodorus pillar in Vidisha (110 BCE) King Milinda and his bodyguard of "500 Yonas" in the Milinda Panha. The description of Greek astrology and Greek...
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  • of the Indo-Greek kingdom by the buddhist King Milinda, as recorded in the Buddhist text Milinda Panha. Tarn, William Woodthorpe (2010-06-24). The Greeks...
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    The Indo-Greek king Menander embraced Buddhism as attested in the Milinda Panha, which dates from sometime between 100 BC and 200 AD, following a dialogue...
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    Buddhists. It is also separately established through another text, the Milinda Panha, and archeological evidence that Menander himself ruled a vast empire...
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    of Chanakya in the destruction of the Nanda empire. In another work, Milinda Panha (dating from 100 BCE), Bhaddasala is named as a Nanda general during...
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  • Paṇḍaka, as like what monk rules said in Vinaya. The Theravadin text Milinda Panha, claims that Paṇḍakas let out secrets through their imperfection. Some...
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    Apadana Buddhavamsa Cariyapitaka Nettipakarana or Netti Petakopadesa Milinda Panha For more on these editions also see Pali Canon The first four nikayas...
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  • them is recorded by Greeks as Alexander-Dandamis colloquy.. King Porus Milinda Panha Hinduism Ambhi Darius III Spirituality Sen, Sailendra Nath (1999). Ancient...
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    religion and the subject of an important Buddhist work, the Milinda-panha ("The Questions of Milinda"). Menander was born in the Caucasus, but the Greek biographer...
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  • debating with the Buddhist monk Nagasena, as recorded in the Buddhist text Milinda Panha. the text offers an early description of the city's cityscape and status...
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    debating with the Buddhist monk Nagasena, as recorded in the Buddhist text Milinda Panha. the text offers an early description of the city's cityscape and status...
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    Buddhist views about dreams are expressed in the Pāli Commentaries and the Milinda Pañhā. In Chinese history, people wrote of two vital aspects of the soul of...
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    king, was a renowned patron of Buddhism and is immortalized in the Milinda Panha, a Pali-language Buddhist text; Mahadharmaraksita, a 2nd-century BCE...
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    Hermeticism Indo-Greek religions Kemetism List of modern pagan temples Milinda Pañha Modern paganism Mos maiorum Old Norse religion Polytheistic reconstructionism...
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    Buddhism, and is regarded as one of the great patrons of Buddhism. (See Milinda Panha.) Some modern historians have suggested that the pre-Christian monastic...
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    is mentioned in the 2nd or 3rd century Indian texts Maha Niddesa and Milinda Panha, and it is also considered to be the same as the Talaittakkōlam mentioned...
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    Sarvatha-siddhi and a hunter's daughter named Mura. The Buddhist text Milinda Panha mentions a war between the Nanda general Bhaddasala (Sanskrit:Bhadrashala)...
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    impermanent character: it can run out. Summarizing from the Buddhist text Milinda Pañhā, some scholars conclude that merit is inherently stronger than demerit...
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    was one of the patrons of Buddhism. He was also the subject of the Milinda Panha. Mahadharmaraksita was a Greek Buddhist master, who according to Mahāvaṃsa...
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  • BCE), Buddhist sage questioned about Buddhism by Milinda, the Indo-Greek king in the Milinda Pañha An Shigao, Parthian monk and the first known Buddhist...
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