Heliodorus pillar was erected around 110 BCE in central India at the site of Vidisha, by Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas to the court of the Shunga king Bhagabhadra.
Heliodorus pillar was erected around 110 BCE in central India at the site of Vidisha, by Heliodorus, a Greek ambassador of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas to the court of the Shunga king Bhagabhadra.
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**This Garuda-standard of Vāsudeva(Vishnu), the God of Gods**
**was erected here by the devotee Heliodoros,**
**the son of Dion, a man of Taxila,**
**sent by the Great Yona King Antialkidas, as ambassador**
**to King Kasiputra Bhagabhadra,**
**the Savior son of the princess from Varanasi,**
**in the fourteenth year of his reign.**
**Three immortal precepts (footsteps)… when practiced**
**lead to heaven: self-restraint, charity, consciousness**
Yes, in that well known European country, India.
If we got India on the EU we could rename it the IEU – The Indo-European Union!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliodorus_pillar
Those sure are a lot of names that I cannot pronounce
Heliodoros mean gift of the sun
Helios = sun
Doro = gift