man that thing is cool!
Can one keep it as pet? Its like a bunny with short ears
I don't know about india. Do you have informations about roman / indian relations?
Don't Know about Romans but greeks Yes We have common history there Some Greek genetic within our Population of India,Afghanistan,Pakistan others
The Indians occupy in part some of the countries situated along the Indus, which formerly belonged to the Persians: Alexander deprived the Ariani of them, and established there settlements of his own. But
Seleucus Nicator gave them to
Sandrocottus in consequence of a marriage contract, and received in return five hundred elephants.
—
Strabo 15.2.1(9
Also several Greeks, such as the historian
Megasthenes,
[13] followed by
Deimachus and
Dionysius, were sent to reside at the
Mauryan court.
[14] Presents continued to be exchanged between the two rulers.
[15] The intensity of these contacts is testified by the existence of a dedicated Mauryan state department for Greek (
Yavana) and Persian foreigners,
[16] or the remains of
Hellenistic pottery that can be found throughout northern India.
[17]
Bilingual edict (
Greek and
Aramaic) by king
Ashoka, from
Kandahar.
Kabul Museum (click image for translation).
[18]
On these occasions, Greek populations apparently remained in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent under Mauryan rule. Chandragupta's grandson
Ashoka, who had converted to the Buddhist faith declared in the
Edicts of Ashoka, set in stone, some of them written in Greek,
[19][20] that Greek populations within his realm also had converted to Buddhism:
[21]
Here in the king's domain among the Greeks
According to the
Mahavamsa, the
Great Stupa in
Anuradhapura,
Sri Lanka, was dedicated by a 30,000-strong "
Yona" (Greek) delegation from "
Alexandria" around 130 BCE.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurya_Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Greek_Kingdom
There religion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Buddhism
Menander I, the "Saviour king", seems to have converted to
Buddhism, and is described in Buddhist texts as a great benefactor of the religion, on a par with
Ashoka or the future
Kushan emperor Kanishka. He is famous for his dialogues with the Buddhist monk
Nagasena, transmitted to us in the
Milinda Panha, which explain that he became a Buddhist
arhat:
"And afterwards, taking delight in the wisdom of the Elder, he (Menander) handed over his kingdom to his son, and abandoning the household life for the house-less state, grew great in insight, and himself attained to Arahatship!"
—
The Questions of King Milinda, Translation by
T. W. Rhys Davids.
