<Tr> <Th> House </Th> <Td> House of Euthydemus </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Religion </Th> <Td> Buddhism </Td> </Tr> <P> Menander I Soter (Ancient Greek: Μένανδρος Αʹ ὁ Σωτήρ, Ménandros Aʹ ho Sōtḗr, "Menander I the Saviour"; known in Indian Pali sources as Milinda) was an Indo - Greek King of the Indo - Greek Kingdom (165 / 155--130 BC) who administered a large empire in the Northwestern regions of the Indian Subcontinent from his capital at Sagala . Menander is noted for having become a patron of Buddhism . </P> <P> Menander was initially a king of Bactria . After conquering the Punjab he established an empire in the Indian Subcontinent stretching from the Kabul River valley in the west to the Ravi River in the east, and from the Swat River valley in the north to Arachosia (the Helmand Province). Ancient Indian writers indicate that he launched expeditions southward into Rajasthan and as far east down the Ganges River Valley as Pataliputra (Patna), and the Greek geographer Strabo wrote that he "conquered more tribes than Alexander the Great ." </P>

Which ruler expanded greek territories as far east as india