yavana
यवन yavana'Greek' or 'Ionian'; the term by which Sanskrit sources named the Greeks, preserved in the title Yavanajataka, and a marker of the Greek debt in Indian jyotisha alongside the loanword hora.
Where this term appears
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
Yavana is the Sanskrit for Greek, from "Ionian." Jataka means nativity.
- Hinduism and the Coming of Islam History
…he moment, they very often called the newcomers turushka , Turks, and yavana , the old word once used for the Greeks, rather than "Muslims." The historian Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, reading these inscriptions c…
- Meaning and the Measure of Time Treatise
Yavana means "Greek," or strictly "Ionian," the Sanskrit word for the Greeks.
- The word they were given Treatise
From her dung, the Śabaras and the Śakas together. From her urine, the Yavanas.