Editing Menander I (section)

===Buddhist constructions===
[[File:Butkara stupa 2nd century BCE.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Butkara stupa]] as expanded during the reign of Menander I.]]
A coin of Menander I was found in the second oldest stratum (GSt 2) of the [[Butkara stupa]] suggesting a period of additional constructions during the reign of Menander.<ref name="HB">[https://books.google.com/books?id=C9_vbgkzUSkC&pg=PA49 Handbuch der Orientalistik, Kurt A. Behrendt, BRILL, 2004, p.49 sig]</ref> It is thought that Menander was the builder of the second oldest layer of the Butkara stupa, following its initial construction during the [[Maurya empire]].<ref>"King Menander, who built the penultimate layer of the Butkara stupa in the first century BCE, was an Indo-Greek."in  ''Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River'', [[Alice Albinia]], 2012</ref>

These elements tend to indicate the importance of Buddhism within Greek communities in northwestern India, and the prominent role Greek Buddhist monks played in them, probably under the sponsorship of Menander.