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"Yona" is a Pali word used in ancient India to designate Greek speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana". "Yona" and "Yavana" are both transliterations of the Greek word for "Ionians" (Homer I?ones, older *I?wones), who were probably the first Greeks to be known in the East.

Direct identification of these words with the Greeks include:

• The mention of the "Yona king Antiochus" in the Edicts of Ashoka (280 BCE)
• The mention of the "Yona king Antialcidas" in the Heliodorus pillar in Vidisha (110 BCE)
• King Menander and his bodyguard of "500 Yonas" in the Milinda Panha.
• The description of Greek astrology and Greek terminology in the Yavanajataka ("Sayings of the Yavanas") (150 CE).
• The mention of "Alexandria, the city of the Yonas" in the Mahavamsa, Chapter 29 (4th century CE).

Although the association with eastern Greeks seems to have been quite precise and systematic until the beginning of our era (other foreigners had their own descriptor, such as Sakas, Pahlavas, Kambojas etc...), these terms came to designate more generally "Europeans" and later "foreigners" in the following centuries.

The "Yona" Greek king of India Menander (160?135 BCE). inscription in Greek, "BASILE?S SOT?ROS MENANDROU" lit. "of Saviour King Menander".