Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c15.164

c15.164

The Persian conquest of the Panjab was followed by the so-called Greek conquest, which was short-lived. The effect of Alexander's campaigns in the Panjab was only to unify the country all the more. Smaller principalities were brought together in the larger kingdom which was Alexander's gift to his whilom adversary, Poros. Another consequence of the pressure of the foreign invasion was the formation of the confederacies of free peoples already described. These unities, as we have seen, paved the way of Chandragupta Maurya in building up his great Empire.