The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c24.s1.4

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The capital presumably continued to be, as of old, Pātaliputra, and probably all the central or home provinces of the empire recognized the usurper's authority, which perhaps extended to the south as far as the Narmadā river,¹ and may be assumed to have embraced the territories in the Gangetic basin, corresponding with the modern Bihār, Tirhūt, and the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. It is unlikely that either the later Mauryas or the Śuṅgas exercised any jurisdiction in the Panjāb. Wilson's belief that the arms of Pushyamitra reached the Indus was due to a misunderstanding.²