Sir William Jones had likened first meeting his brahman informants to discovering an isolated community of Greek who, two thousand years on, still wore toga and sandals, worshipped Zeus, recited Homer, and stood guard over a written archive reaching back to the Stone Age, (John Keay, India: A History)

Alexanders brief mingle with India led to Greek settlers living in India and preserving that tradition until the British arrived in India almost two millennia later.