भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

the time of Alexander, had undergone a complete change, both political and military, because of the brave efforts of Chandragupta and Chanakya. He was confused. Right from the northern most part of Punjab on the bank of the Indus to the waters of the Western Sea (Sindhusagar), he saw erected, as it were, a steel wall of well-organized, centrally controlled fourfold Indian army to check his advance! And at the head of it was Chandragupta himself! 132. As soon as the two armies thirsting to fight met, a bitter war started. The Greeks did their utmost, but at last, the Indian forces on two or three battlefields somewhere on the banks of the Indus (the place or places are unknown yet), put them to such a pitiful rout that hardly four years earlier, when Chandragupta-Chanakya vowed secretly to establish an independent Indian empire under a unitary command, their armed might was literally nil! That very Chandragupta who started with this ‘nil’, had now a well- equipped loyal army of 6,00,000 foot soldiers, 30,000 cavalry, 2,000 war- elephants and 4,000 chariots! Seleucos could not help capitulating to the victorious Chandragupta. Revenge of the Defeat of King Paurav 133. Thus was avenged by this decisive victory of Chandragupta over the vanquished Greeks, the old sore of the defeat of King Paurav and other atrocities and insults meted out to the Indians by Alexander! So... The Vanquished Seleucos Meekly Accepted all the terms of the Victorious Chandragupta 134. According to these terms of the treaty, Seleucos relinquished his right to the Indian region this side of the Indus, which he had so far maintained. But when he was firmly told by Chief Minister Chanakya, that the war would not end unless the whole region from Gandhar to Hindukush, which was till then in the Greek hands, was yielded to the Indian Emperor, he submitted to it meekly and the thousands of Greek warriors, who proudly held their brave chests and their swords drawn up while crossing the Indus on their march against India, now returned crestfallen, with their heads and swords held down. They crossed not only the Indus backwards but retreated to the farthest end of the Hindukush mountain. Love is Impossible Without fear (भय बिन होय न प्रीत) 135. This singular victory of Chandragupta brought the Indian frontiers quite close to those of the Greek empire of Seleucos and the dividing line