Chandragupta Maurya, with the help of Chanakya, defeated the Magadha king and the navy of the Chandravanshi clan. Following his victory, the defeated generals of Alexander settled in Gandhara (the Kamboja kingdom), state-of-the-art Afghanistan. At the time of Alexander's invasion, Chanakya used to be a teacher in Takshasila. The king of Takshasila and Gandhara, Ambhi (sometimes called Taxiles), made a peace treaty with Alexander. Chanakya, nevertheless, deliberate to defeat the international invasion and sought aid from different kings to unite and combat Alexander. Parvateshwara (Porus), a king of Punjab, used to be the one local king who was ready to venture Alexander on the battle of the Hydaspes River, but he was defeated.
Chanakya then went extra east to Magadha, to seek the aid of Dhana Nanda, who dominated the colossal Nanda Empire which increased from Bihar and Bengal in the east to Punjab and Sindh within the west, however Dhana Nanda refused to help him. After this incident, Chanakya began to steer his disciple Chandragupta of the have to construct an empire that would look after Indian territories from international invasion.
in keeping with Plutarch, at the time of the fight of the Hydaspes River, the Nanda Empire's navy numbered 200,000 infantry, eighty,000 cavalry, 8,000 chariots, and 6,000 warfare elephants, which discouraged Alexander's guys and prevented their further growth into India:
"As for the Macedonians, however, their battle with Porus blunted their courage and stayed their further advance into India. For having had all they would do to repulse an enemy who mustered only twenty thousand infantry and two thousand horse, they violently adversarial Alexander when he insisted on crossing the river Ganges also, the width of which, as they learned, was thirty-two furlongs, its depth 100 fathoms, at the same time its banks on the further side were covered with multitudes of guys-at arms and horsemen and elephants. For they were advised that the kings of the Ganderites and Praesii had been awaiting them with eighty thousand horsemen, 2 hundred thousand footmen, eight thousand chariots, and 6 thousand fighting elephants. And there used to be no boasting in these stories. For Androcottus, who reigned there no longer long afterwards, made a present to Seleucus of five hundred elephants, and with an military of 600 thousand men overran and subdued all India."
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