[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c10.s2.136 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.136 The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s2.136 - **Language:** English ### [c10.s2.136](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s2.136) Perhaps one curious speculation may be permitted here. It has recently been suggested² that Asoka was grandson of the Seleucid princess, whoever she was, whom Seleucus gave in marriage to Chandragupta.³ Should this far-reaching suggestion be well founded, it would not only throw light on the good relations between the Seleucid and Maurya dynasties, but would mean that the Mauryya dynasty was descended from, or anyhow connected with, Seleucus. But Demetrius was a Seleucid on the distaff side; and when the Mauryan line became extinct, he might well have regarded himself, if not as the next heir, at any rate as the heir nearest at hand. His plan to revive the Mauryan empire would then really have meant that he proposed to enter upon his inheritance. Should this be true, then he must have crossed the Hindu Kush with his plan ready formed; otherwise one might conjecture that that plan only took final shape at Taxila, after he had learnt more about Indian feeling and the possibilities of the situation, just as it was not till after Issus that Alexander definitely envisaged the conquest of the whole Persian empire. - [Previous: c10.s2.135](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s2.135) - [Next: c10.s2.137](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s2.137) - [Up: c10.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s2.136](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c10.s2.136) · Pramāṇa