Mysterious `foreign face´ discovered in 6th Cent Vishnu temple in MP
(The Times of India)

The closest such example is the famous `Heliodorus Pillar´ in Vidisha, she said. The 6.5m stone column was built around 113 BCE in Vidisha´s Besnagar - around 11km from the Sanchi Stupa - by Heliodorus, an ambassador of the Indo-Greek king Antialcidas of Taxila to the court of the Shunga king Agabhadra. Heliodorus is the first recorded foreigner to convert to Vaishnavism, Samanta added.