Digital Rare Book :
The Questions Of King Milinda
By T.W. Rhys David
Printed at The Clarendon Press, Oxford - 1890

The Milinda Panha is an ancient and much venerated book of the Buddhists, indeed regarded so highly as to be included by the Burmese in the Pali Canon. In the Pali book it says that the conversations between King Milinda and Nàgasena took place five hundred years after the Parinibbàna of the Buddha. Mr. T.W. Rhys Davids, the translator of the Pali texts, regarded the Milinda Panha very highly. He said, “I venture to think that the Questions of King Milinda’ is undoubtedly the masterpiece of Indian prose; and indeed the best book of its class, from a literary point of view, that had been produced in any country.”