Yavaneśvara

Who is Yavaneśvara?

Yavaneśvara, Sanskrit for "Lord" "of the Greeks", was a man who lived in the Gujarat region of India under the rule of the Western Kshatrapa Saka king Rudrakarman I.

In 149-150 CE, Yavanesvara translated the Yavanajataka, one of the earliest writings of Indian astrology, from Greek to Sanskrit:

In the Yavanajataka he documents and explains various words of the Greek language, such as diametros or dekanos.

Yavanasvera was himself a Greek living in India, as the original Greek text is said to have been written "in his tongue".