SAST 203 Chapter 2: CH 2 Part 2
22 Jun 2020
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He didn"t lead any military campaigns here. credit given to his political advisor, the brahmin kautalya, author of the arthashastra in 305 bc, nikator, ruler of east part of alexander"s domain, crossed hindukush mt to claim. Alexander"s heritage in india: chandragupta met him w a large army in panjab and stopped his march east subsequent peace treaty: seleukos ceded all terriorites to the east of kabul & baluchistan to. Chandragupta who gave him 500 war elephants in return which helped seleukos defeat his rival, Antigonos 4 yrs later frontier of the maurya empire was the same as that of the mughal empire at its peak about. 2000 yrs later: we don"t know the history after seleukos. Pataliputra in report fortified w palisades shaped like parallelograms city was twice as large as rome, thus largest city of ancient world or this was exaggerated in the report.
