Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.80

c5.80

Friendly relations were continued between India and the West after these two kings. Chandragupta's son, Bindusāra, asked the son of Seleukos, Antiochos I, to get him sweet wine, figs, and a philosopher. Antiochos I sent as his ambassador to Bindusāra Daimachus of Plataea. Pliny [*Natural History*, VI. 58] mentions Dionysius as the ambassador despatched to India by Ptolemy Philadelphus (King of Egypt, 285-247, B.C.). The Indian king to whom Dionysius was despatched must have been either Bindusāra or his son Asoka who in his Rock Edict XIII refers to him as one of the five foreign kings to whom he despatched his own Welfare Missions.