Menander I Soter (Ancient Greek: Μένανδρος Α΄ ὁ Σωτήρ, Ménandros A' ho Sōtḗr, "Menander I the Saviour"; known in Indian Pali sources as Milinda) was a Greek King of the Indo-Greek Kingdom (165//155 –130 BC) who established a large empire in South Asia and became a patron of Buddhism.Menander was initially a king of Bactria.