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* ''Arunad Yawano Madyamikām'' (orang Yawana tengah mengepung [[Nagari, Rajasthan|Madyamika]]).
[[File:Yavana warrior (proper left side), Udayagiri and Khandagiri Caves.jpg|thumb|Arca yang diduga kuat menggambarkan prajurit Yawana bersepatu lars dan berbaju [[khiton]], dari situs Rani Gumpa (Gua Rani) di [[Gua-gua Udayagiri dan Kandagiri|perguaan Udayagiri]], pesisir timur India, tempat ditemukannya [[prasasti Hatigumpa]], abad ke-2 atau abad pertama SM<ref>"Perawakan kekar dan penempatannya pada pintu gua (Rani Gumpa) mengisyaratkan bahwa arca laki-laki tersebut adalah sosok pengawal atau [[dwarapala]]. Sikapnya yang agresif dan pakaiannya yang berciri Barat (jubah pendek dan sepatu lars) merupakan indikasi bahwa mungkin sekali arca ini menggambarkan seorang prajurit Yawana, bangsa asing dari Dunia Yunani-Romawi." dalam ''Early Sculptural Art in the Indian Coastlands: A Study in Cultural Transmission and Syncretism (300 BCE-CE 500),'' Sunil Gupta, D K Printworld (P) Limited, 2008, hlm. 85</ref>]] Pustaka ''[[Yugapurana]]'' menjabarkan peristiwa-peristiwa dalam bentuk ramalan, yang mungkin saja merupakan peristiwa-peristiwa bersejarah,<!ref>"Namun cerita sebenarnya tentang invasi Yunani-India hanya menjadi jelas pada analisis materi yang terkandung di dalam bagian historis dari Gargisanghita, yakni Yugapurana" Narain, hlm. 110, ''The Indo-Greeks''. Juga "Teks Yugapurana, sebagaimana yang sudah kami tunjukkan, memberikan petunjuk eksplisit mengenai kurun waktu dan hakikat invasi Pataliputra yang di dalamnya bangsa Yunani-India turut mengambil bagian, karena teks tersebut mengatakan bahwa orang Pancala dan orang Mandura adalah kekuatan-kekuatan lain yang menyerang Saketa dan menghancurkan Pataliputra", Narain, hlm. 112</ref><ref>"Bagi sarjana mana pun yang menekuni kajian kehadiran bangsa Yunani-India atau bangsa Skit-India sebelum tarikh Masehi, ''Yugapurana'' merupakan sumber materi yang penting" Dilip Coomer Ghose, Sekretaris Jenderal, [[Perhimpunan Asiawi]], [[Kolkata]], 2002</ref><ref>"..menambah bobot kemungkinan bahwa keterangan tentang penyerbuan orang Yawan ke Saketa dan Pataliputra-dalam persekutuan dengan orang Pancala dan orang Mandura—memang bersifat historis" Mitchener, ''The Yuga Purana'', hlm. 65.</ref> meriwayatkan penyerbuan bangsa Yunani-India atas ibu kota Pataliputra,<ref>"Pergerakan orang Yunani ke Pataliputra dicatat pihak India di dalam Yuga-purana", Tarn, hlm. 145</ref> sebuah kota berbenteng megah dengan 570 menara dan 64 pintu gerbang menurut [[Megastenes]],<ref>"Kota terbesar di India adalah kota yang dinamakan Palimbotra, di wilayah kedaulatan bangsa Prasia [[...]] Megastenes memberi tahun kita bahwa kota ini membentang dari kawasan-kawasan permukiman berpenghuni sampai sejauh delapan puluh stadia ke masing-masing sisinya, dan lebarnya lima belas stadia, dan seluruhnya dikelilingi sebuah parit selebar enam ratus kaki dengan kedalaman tiga puluh hasta, dan temboknya bermahkotakan 570 menara dan memiliki enam puluh tambah empat pintu gerbang." Arr. Ind. 10. "Of Pataliputra and the Manners of the Indians.", mengutip Megastenes [http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/history/primarydocs/Foreign_Views/GreekRoman/Megasthenes-Indika.htm Text] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210080315/http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/history/primarydocs/Foreign_Views/GreekRoman/Megasthenes-Indika.htm |date=10 Desember 2008 }}</ref> dan menjabarkan kerusakan yang akhirnya menimpa tembok kota tersebut:<ref>"Teks Yugapurana, sebagaimana yang sudah kami tunjukkan, memberikan petunjuk eksplisit mengenai kurun waktu dan hakikat invasi Pataliputra yang di dalamnya bangsa Yunani-India turut mengambil bagian, karena teks tersebut mengatakan bahwa orang Pancala dan orang Mandura adalah kekuatan-kekuatan lain yang menyerang Saketa dan menghancurkan Pataliputra", Narain, hlm. 112</ref>.</ref>
{{quote| ThenMaka, aftersesudah having approachedmenghampiri [[Saketa]] togetherbersama-sama with theorang [[ PanchalaPancala]] s anddan theorang [[Mathura , Uttar Pradesh| MathuraMandura]] s, theorang YavanasYawana, valiantyang ingagah battleberani dalam pertempuran, willakan reachmencapai KusumadhvajaKusumadwaja (" Thekota townpanji-panji of the flower-standardkusuma", [[Pataliputra]]). ThenMaka, oncebegitu Puspapura ( anothernama name oflain Pataliputra) hassudah beendicapai reacheddan andtembok-tembok itslumpurnya celebratednan mud-wallsjaya castraya downdirubuhkan, all the realmseluruh willnegeri beakan inkacau disorderbalau.|'' Yuga PuranaYugapurana'', ParagraphAlinea 47–48, quoteddikutip indalam Mitchener, ''The Yuga Purana'', edisi 2002 edition<ref name="Chakrbarti">The Sungas, Kanvas, Republican Kingdoms and Monarchies, Mahameghavahanas, [[Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti]], phlm. 6 [https://www.academia.edu/7469349/I.1._The_Sungas_Kanvas_Republican_Kingdoms_and_Monarchies_Mahameghavahanas]</ref><ref name="McEvilley 371">McEvilley, 2002, The Shape of Ancient Thought, phlm. 371</ref>}} <!--▼The Brahmanical text of the ''[[Yuga Purana]]'' describes events in the form of a prophecy, which may have been historical,<ref>"But the real story of the Indo-Greek invasion becomes clear only on the analysis of the material contained in the historical section of the Gargi Samhita, the Yuga Purana" Narain, p110, ''The Indo-Greeks''. Also "The text of the Yuga Purana, as we have shown, gives an explicit clue to the period and nature of the invasion of Pataliputra in which the Indo-Greeks took part, for it says that the Pancalas and the Mathuras were the other powers who attacked Saketa and destroyed Pataliputra", Narain, p. 112</ref><ref>"For any scholar engaged in the study of the presence of the Indo-Greeks or Indo-Scythians before the Christian Era, the ''Yuga Purana'' is an important source material" Dilip Coomer Ghose, General Secretary, [[Asiatic Society|The Asiatic Society]], [[Kolkata]], 2002</ref><ref>"..further weight to the likelihood that this account of a Yavana incursion to Saketa and Pataliputra-in alliance with the Pancalas and the Mathuras—is indeed historical" Mitchener, ''The Yuga Purana'', p. 65.</ref> relates the attack of the Indo-Greeks on the capital Pataliputra,<ref>"The advance of the Greek to Pataliputra is recorded from the Indian side in the Yuga-purana", Tarn, p. 145</ref> a magnificent fortified city with 570 towers and 64 gates according to [[Megasthenes]],<ref>"The greatest city in India is that which is called Palimbothra, in the dominions of the Prasians [[...]] Megasthenes informs us that this city stretched in the inhabited quarters to an extreme length on each side of eighty stadia, and that its breadth was fifteen stadia, and that a ditch encompassed it all round, which was six hundred feet in breadth and thirty cubits in depth, and that the wall was crowned with 570 towers and had four-and-sixty gates." Arr. Ind. 10. "Of Pataliputra and the Manners of the Indians.", quoting Megasthenes [http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/history/primarydocs/Foreign_Views/GreekRoman/Megasthenes-Indika.htm Text] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210080315/http://www.mssu.edu/projectsouthasia/history/primarydocs/Foreign_Views/GreekRoman/Megasthenes-Indika.htm |date=December 10, 2008 }}</ref> and describes the ultimate destruction of the city's walls:<ref>"The text of the Yuga Purana, as we have shown, gives an explicit clue to the period and nature of the invasion of Pataliputra in which the Indo-Greeks took part, for it says that the Pancalas and the Mathuras were the other powers who attacked Saketa and destroyed Pataliputra", Narain, ''The Indo-Greeks'', p. 112.</ref>
▲{{quote|Then, after having approached [[Saketa]] together with the [[Panchala]]s and the [[Mathura, Uttar Pradesh|Mathura]]s, the Yavanas, valiant in battle, will reach Kusumadhvaja ("The town of the flower-standard", [[Pataliputra]]). Then, once Puspapura (another name of Pataliputra) has been reached and its celebrated mud-walls cast down, all the realm will be in disorder.|''Yuga Purana'', Paragraph 47–48, quoted in Mitchener, ''The Yuga Purana'', 2002 edition<ref name="Chakrbarti">The Sungas, Kanvas, Republican Kingdoms and Monarchies, Mahameghavahanas, [[Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti]], p. 6 [https://www.academia.edu/7469349/I.1._The_Sungas_Kanvas_Republican_Kingdoms_and_Monarchies_Mahameghavahanas]</ref><ref name="McEvilley 371">McEvilley, 2002, The Shape of Ancient Thought, p. 371</ref>}}
Accounts of battles between the Greeks and the Shunga in [[Central India]] are also found in the ''[[Mālavikāgnimitram]]'', a play by [[Kālidāsa]] which is thought to describe an encounter between a Greek cavalry squadron and [[Vasumitra]], the grandson of [[Pushyamitra]], during the latter's reign, by the [[Sindh River]] or the [[Kali Sindh River]].<ref>"Indo-Greek, Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian coins in the Smithsonian institution", [[Bopearachchi]], p16. Also: "Kalidasa recounts in his Mālavikāgnimitra (5.15.14–24) that [[Pushyamitra Shunga|Puspamitra]] appointed his grandson Vasumitra to guard his sacrificial horse, which wandered on the right bank of the Sindhu river and was seized by Yavana cavalrymen—the later being thereafter defeated by Vasumitra. The "Sindhu" referred to in this context may refer the river [[Indus River|Indus]]: but such an extension of Shunga power seems unlikely, and it is more probable that it denotes one of two rivers in central Indiaeither the Sindhu river which is a tributary of the [[Yamuna]], or the Kali-Sindhu river which is a tributary of the [[Chambal River|Chambal]]." The Yuga Purana, Mitchener, 2002.)"</ref>
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