A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c9.s1.1

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A short time after the death of Alexander in 323 B. C., the throne of Magadha, or South Bihār, then the premier kingdom of Northern India, was seized by Chandragupta, surnamed the Maurya, known as Sandrokottos to Greek authors. In the course of a victorious reign of twenty-four years this able prince made himself master of all India, at least as far south as the river Narbadā, and acquired from Seleukos Nikator, first his enemy and then his ally, the valuable provinces lying between the Indus and the Hindu Kush mountains which now constitute the major part of the kingdom of Afghanistan.