(24)S.M.Burstein,The Hellenistic Age from the Battle of I posos to the Death of Kleopatra Ⅶ,Cambridge:Cambridge University Press,1985,pp.67-68.
    (25)埃及托勒密二世曾派使者Dionysius前往阿育王的宫廷。Pliny,Natural History,Ⅵ.XXI.,Loeb Classical Library,Cambridge,Mass.:Harvard University Press,1999.
    (26)Polybius,The Histories,11.34,Loeb Classical Library,Cambridge,Mass.:Harvard University Press,1993.
    (27)这四位巴克特里亚国王是Theodotus父子，Eucratides父子，三位印度-希腊人国王是Demetrius Ⅰ,Apollodotus Ⅰ和Menander Ⅰ。参见Justinus,Epitome of Pompeius Trogus' "Philippic Histories," trans,Rev.J.S.Watson(London,1853),41.4.5,8-9; 41.6.1-5;G.F.Assar,"Artabanus of Trogus Pompeius' 41st Prologue," Electrum,vol.15(Kraków,2009),p.124.
    (28)印度西北部的一个部落，在梵语文献中，常常和Yavanas，Sakas等并列提及。G.A.Grierson,"The Birthplace of Bhakti," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,Jul.1911,pp.800-801.
    (29)详见The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa,translated by K.M.Ganguli at the Internet Sacred Text Archive,BiblioBazaar,2009,Book 7:pp.21,37,64,248,339,340,341,345.
    (30)E.H .Johnston,"Demetrius in Sind?" Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,no.2,Apr.1939,pp.217-240.
    (31)Valmiki Ramayana,1.54.20-23;1.55.2-4.《罗摩衍那》的英译或梵英对译本较多，虽然关于Yavanas内容的英译字面上不太一致，但基本意思相同。汉译本参见季羡林译：《罗摩衍那(一)》，《季羡林文集》第17卷，南昌：江西教育出版社，1995年，第296-298页。但季译本的章与英译本不同，分别是1.53.54。季羡林译名对应如下：耶婆那(Yavanas)、释竭(Sakas或Shakas)、甘谟惹(Kambojas)、波罗婆(Pahlavas)。
    (32)G.N.Banerjee,Hellenism in Ancient India,Delhi:Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt.Ltd.,p.121.
    (33)W.W.Tarn,The Greeks in the Bactria and India,1951,p.453.
    (34)G.N.Banerjee,Hellenism in Ancient India,p.121.
    (35)有关译文及讨论主要参见:W.W.Tarn,The Greeks in the Bactria and India,1951,pp.452-456;A.K.Narain,The Indo-Greeks,pp.174-179,82-83; D.C.Sircar,"The Account of the Yavanas in the Yuga-Purana," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland,no.1/2,Apr.1963,pp.7-20; E.Mitchiner,The Yuga Purana,Calcutta,India:Asiatic Society,1986,pp.91-92(Paragraph 47-58); O.Bopearachchi,Indo-Greek,Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian Coins in the Smithsonian Institution,Washington:National Numismatic Collection,Smithsonian Institution,1993,p.16 & n.1.
    (36)E.Mitchiner,The Yuga Purana,pp.91-92(Paragraph 47-58).
    (37)参见A.K.Narain,The Indo-Greeks,MapⅡ; W.W.Tarn,The Greeks in the Bactria and India,1951,Map 2.
    (38)O.Bopearachchi,Indo-Greek,Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian Coins in the Smithsonian Institution,p.16; W.W.Tarn,The Greeks in the Bactria and India,1951,pp.145-146,Map 2; A.K.Narain,The Indo-Greeks,p.82,Map Ⅱ.Madhyamika位于今印度拉贾斯坦邦南部。
    (39)有学者认为关于Saketa的围攻与《瑜伽往事书》所记吻合，想把Yavanas此次的入侵归于印度-希腊人国王米南德。但Madhyamika离米南德征伐的路线之南很远，可能是指另外一场战斗(George Woodcock,The Greeks in India,London:Faber and Faber Limited,1966,p.101)。塔恩将这次围攻归于另一印度-希腊人国王阿波罗多托斯(W.W.Tarn,The Greeks in the Bactria and India,1951,pp.150-151)。