[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [War in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944) › c8.s2.6 # War in Ancient India c8.s2.6 War in Ancient India c8.s2.6 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.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? - [Previous: c8.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c8.s2.5) - [Next: c8.s2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c8.s2.7) - [Up: c8.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c8.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c8.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c8.s2.6) · Pramāṇa