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 ===Conquest of the Nanda Empire===
-{{Main|Conquest of the Nanda Empire|Chandragupta Maurya|Chanakya|Nanda Empire|Magadha}}
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-| header    = '''Territorial evolution of the Mauryan Empire'''
-| image1    = Magadha Expansion 1.gif
-| caption1  = <small>Territory of [[Magadha]] and the Maurya Empire between 600 and 180 BCE, including Chandragupta's overthrow of the Nanda Empire (321 BCE) and gains from the [[Seleucid Empire]] (303 BCE), the southward expansion (before 273 BCE), and Ashoka's conquest of [[Kalinga (historical region)|Kalinga]] (261 BCE).<ref name="dsal.uchicago.edu"/></small>
-| image2    = Magadha Expansion 2.gif
-| caption2  = <small>The same animation, modified in accordance with Kulke and Rothermund (see text). [[Hermann Kulke]] and [[Dietmar Rothermund]] believe that Ashoka's empire did not include large parts of India, which were controlled by autonomous tribes.{{sfn|Hermann Kulke|2004|p=69–70}}</small>
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 Historically reliable details of Chandragupta's campaign against [[Nanda Empire]] are unavailable and legends written centuries later are inconsistent. Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu texts claim [[Magadha]] was ruled by the [[Nanda dynasty]], which, with [[Chanakya]]'s counsel, [[Chandragupta Maurya|Chandragupta]] conquered Nanda Empire.{{sfn|Thapar|2013|pp=362–364}}{{sfn|Sen|1895|pp=26–32}}{{sfn|Upinder Singh|2008|p=272}} The army of Chandragupta and Chanakya first conquered the Nanda outer territories, and finally besieged the Nanda capital '''Pataliputra'''. In contrast to the easy victory in Buddhist sources, the Hindu and Jain texts state that the campaign was bitterly fought because the Nanda dynasty had a powerful and well-trained army.{{sfn|Mookerji|1988|pp=28–33}}{{sfn|Sen|1895|pp=26–32}}
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 These legends state that the Nanda king was defeated, deposed and exiled by some accounts, while Buddhist accounts claim he was killed.{{sfn|Mookerji|1988|p=34}} With the defeat of Dhana Nanda, Chandragupta Maurya founded the Maurya Empire.{{sfn|Roy|2012|p=62}}
+===Conquest of the Eastern
+Seleucid Empire===
+Greek historians mentioned the result of [[Seleucid–Mauryan war]] where Seleucid Empire's eastern satrapies( [[Gedrosia]],[[Arachosia]], [[Aria]], and [[Paropamisadae]]) ceded to Mauryan Empire :
+{{quote|text= " Seleucus crossed the Indus and waged war with Sandrocottus [Maurya], king of he Indians, who dwelt on the banks of that stream, until  they came to an understanding with each other and contracted a marriage relationship.  Some of these exploits were performed before the death of Antigonus and some afterward." |sign=<small>[[Appian]]</small>|source=''History of Rome'', The Syrian Wars [https://www.livius.org/sources/content/appian/appian-the-syrian-wars/appian-the-syrian-wars-11/ 55]}}<blockquote>" The geographical position of the tribes is as follows: along the Indus are the Paropamisadae, above whom lies the Paropamisus mountain: then, towards the south, the Arachoti: then next, towards the south, the Gedroseni, with the other tribes that occupy the seaboard; and the Indus lies, latitudinally, alongside all these places; and of these places, in part, some that lie along the Indus are held by Indians, although they formerly belonged to the Persians. Alexander [III 'the Great' of Macedon] took these away from the Arians and established settlements of his own, but [[Seleucus Nicator]] gave them to [[Sandrocottus]] [Chandragupta], upon terms of intermarriage and of receiving in exchange five hundred elephants. " — Strabo 15.2.9[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/15B*.html#2.9]</blockquote>
 ===Chandragupta Maurya===