War in Ancient India c8.s2.6

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c8.s2.6

Thus the ancient Indian organisation of the army was efficient and excellent.⁸⁶ If it was not efficient, would it have been possible for Candragupta Maurya to expel the Macedonian chieftains from India, and to defeat Seleukos; for Bindusāra to effect the conquest of the Dekkan and South India; for Aśoka to maintain diplomatic alliances with forest tribes and far-off nations; for Samudragupta to make a *digvijaya* of all India and for Harṣa to conquer and maintain a vast empire?

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