how did Chandragupta maurya route out the greek power of india
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Chandragupta Maurya (reign: 321–297 BCE) was the founder of the Maurya Empire in ancient India.[2][8] Of obscure origins, he was counselled and guided in his adolescent years by Chanakya, who is traditionally identified as Kauṭilya, the author of the Arthashastra (a treatise of statehood and nation building).[9][2]Chandragupta, under the tutelage of Chanakya, conquered the Nanda Empire and the eastern provinces of the Seleucid Empire,[10] thus establishing the largest empire that would exist in the Indian subcontinent.[2][11][12] Chandragupta's life and accomplishments are described in ancient Hindu, Buddhist and Greek texts, but they vary significantly in details from the Jaina accounts.[13] Megasthenes served as a Greek ambassador in his court for four years.[8] In Greek and Latin accounts, Chandragupta is known as Sandrokottos and Androcottus.[
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During the time period when Chandragupta was in his teens, Greece was dealing with the Death of Alexander the Greatin 323 BC. And it is after Alexander's death in 323 B.C., that Chandragupta is said to have put an end to the Greek rule in northwest India, returned to Magadha, killed the Nanda king, and proclaimed the Maurya dynasty in 322 BC.
Then in 305 BC - 304 BC, Seleucus I Nicatoradvanced with a huge army against India to regain control over the north-western territories. The image of India which Seleucus had formed in his mind was that of a country fragmented into small kingdoms and were prone to mutual rivalries and jealousies, but under Chandragupta India was now a much stronger kingdom with a great army.
The Greeks could not withstand the onslaught of the gallant Indian fighters. The army of Chandragupta Maurya routed the invaders and Seleucus was forced to sign a peace treaty. Chandragupta Maurya, advised by Kautilya, presented his terms to the defeated army. Seleucus was forced to accept. By the terms of the treaty, Seleucus surrendered his territories in Afghanistan - Herat, Kandhar, and the Kabul valley - to Chandragupta Maurya. In return, he was presented the gift of 300 elephants.
On (Chanakya) Kautilya's advice, Chandragupta also married the daughter of Seleucus, Helen to set up a policy of friendship with the Hellenistic kingdoms. This had really pushed up India’s trade with the western world.
Now Seleucus also appointed Megasthenesas his ambassador to the Mauryan court. And Megasthenes wrote a famous account of his stay at the Mauryan court in a book entitled India.
Scholars owe much information about Mauryan India to a detailed account written by Megasthenes. However, it must be noted that the original account by Megasthenes has perished, copious extracts are preserved in such later works as J. W. McCrindle, Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian (1877); and K. A. Nilakanta Sastri, ed., Age of the Nandas and Mauryas (1952).
Then in 305 BC - 304 BC, Seleucus I Nicatoradvanced with a huge army against India to regain control over the north-western territories. The image of India which Seleucus had formed in his mind was that of a country fragmented into small kingdoms and were prone to mutual rivalries and jealousies, but under Chandragupta India was now a much stronger kingdom with a great army.
The Greeks could not withstand the onslaught of the gallant Indian fighters. The army of Chandragupta Maurya routed the invaders and Seleucus was forced to sign a peace treaty. Chandragupta Maurya, advised by Kautilya, presented his terms to the defeated army. Seleucus was forced to accept. By the terms of the treaty, Seleucus surrendered his territories in Afghanistan - Herat, Kandhar, and the Kabul valley - to Chandragupta Maurya. In return, he was presented the gift of 300 elephants.
On (Chanakya) Kautilya's advice, Chandragupta also married the daughter of Seleucus, Helen to set up a policy of friendship with the Hellenistic kingdoms. This had really pushed up India’s trade with the western world.
Now Seleucus also appointed Megasthenesas his ambassador to the Mauryan court. And Megasthenes wrote a famous account of his stay at the Mauryan court in a book entitled India.
Scholars owe much information about Mauryan India to a detailed account written by Megasthenes. However, it must be noted that the original account by Megasthenes has perished, copious extracts are preserved in such later works as J. W. McCrindle, Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian (1877); and K. A. Nilakanta Sastri, ed., Age of the Nandas and Mauryas (1952).
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