Pāli Dictionary

yona

Part of speech

noun · neuter

general

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

Encyclopedia

Yonā
Placeapproximate

  • 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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