Pāli Dictionary

yona

approximate

Part of speech

noun · neuter

general

  • 希腊人，臾那人；希腊人之地（大夏，约今阿富汗一带）

  • the Greeks, Ionians; the land of the Greeks (Bactria, roughly modern Afghanistan)

Encyclopedia

Yonā
Place

  • 指巴克特里亚希腊人（爱奥尼亚人）的国度，为阿育王帝国的边疆属地之一，后来也是派遣僧侣前往斯里兰卡的地区。

  • A country and people identified with the Bactrian Greeks (Ionians), listed as a frontier territory of Asoka’s empire and later a source of Buddhist monks who travelled to Sri Lanka.

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