Theodorus (meridarch)

Theodorus was a "meridarch" in the Swat province of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, in Modern northern Pakistan, probably sometime between 100 BCE and the end of Greek rule in Gandhara in 55 BCE.
He is only known from a dedication written in kharoshthi on a relic vase inserted in a stupa in the Swat area of Gandhara, dated to the 1st century BCE, the relic vase is now kept at the Lahore Museum. :

Description

This inscription represents one of the first known mention of the Buddha as a deity, using the Indian bhakti word Bhagavat, suggesting the emergence of Mahayana doctrines in Buddhism.
It is also one of the examples Greco-Buddhism.
Theodorus is considered as contemporary or slightly posterior to another Indo-Greek named Heliodorus, whose c.100 BCE inscriptions have been preserved in the Heliodorus pillar.