Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c17.11

c17.11

Taking their lessons from this conversation, they changed their strategy. "On resuming their attack, by again raising an army, on the provinces and towns, commencing from the frontiers, reducing towns, and stationing troops in the intervals, they proceeded to their invasion. After a respite, adopting the same system, and marshalling a great army, and in regular course reducing each kingdom and province, then assailing Pātiliputta and putting Dhana-Nanda to death, they seized that sovereignty."