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

between the two empires was the range of the Hindukush mountain! The might of this Indian emperor and the personality of Chandragupta and Chanakya impressed the Greek Emperor, Seleucos, so much that he was fully convinced of the advisability of having friendly relations with such a mighty empire rather than to be on inimical terms with it! Secondly, Seleucos had enemies on the other frontiers, although they too were Greeks. Friendship with Chandragupta, therefore, was calculated to overawe them too! For these reasons, the Greek Emperor Seleucos wholeheartedly signed a treaty of permanent peace with Emperor Chandragupta. 136. Moreover, with a view to cementing this political and international friendship with a wedlock between the two royal families and personal affinities and ties, the Greek emperor celebrated the marriage of his daughter with Chandragupta. 137. This offer of the royal princess in marriage by Seleucos, erected a golden pinnacle bedecked with jewels over the magnificent temple of the success of Emperor Chandragupta! The Glorious Treatise of Mahamatya Chanakya! 138. How very effectively and firmly with full regard to the propriety of the case and yet how very discreetly Chanakya managed the affairs of the state, can be clearly seen from his treatise on body politic named Kautaleeya Arthashastra, and from the far-reaching influence of the invincible Indian Empire, which kept on increasing for at least a hundred years afterwards. The account of Megasthenese, the Greek ambassador at the court of Chandragupta, also testifies to the part this treatise played in maintaining peace and order and affluence in the whole empire. 139. At times a single historical event happening overnight or within a single day, changes the whole current of history for over a thousand years to come. This decisive victory of Chandragupta over the Greeks had also had far-reaching effects. The English historian, Vincent Smith, has this remark to offer: “For almost a hundred years after the failure of Seleucos Nikator, no Greek sovereign presumed to attack India.” 140. “...The first Indian emperor, more than two thousand years ago thus entered into possession of that ‘Scientific frontier’ sighed for in vain by his English successors and never held in its entirety even by the Moghul monarchs of the 16th and 17th centuries. “(Early History of India, 4th ed. 1924 by V.A. Smith p.126). Did Alexander Conquer India? No.