Intercourse between India and the Western World from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Rome c8.18

c8.18

By 315 B.C., Macedonian rule in the Panjāb was at an end, though doubtless very considerable bodies of "Yavana" colonists continued to remain settled in the Panjāb, at "Alasanda of the Yonas" and other settlements. They were united by ties of marriage to the country of their adoption and had no desire to return. Having established himself in the Panjāb, Chandragupta marched against Magadha. This time he was successful. The Nanda monarch was defeated, and Chandragupta, with the aid of his old ally Chāṇakya, established himself upon the throne at Pāṭaliputra. He had thus built up for himself a far vaster Empire than India had ever before seen, stretching as it did from the Ganges to the Hindu Kush Mountains. The lessons in imperialism which he had learnt from Alexander had borne good fruit.