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There is uncertainty about the other conquests that Chandragupta may have achieved, especially in the [[Deccan]] region of southern India.{{sfn|Habib|Jha|2004|p=19}} At the time of his grandson Ashoka's ascension in c. 268 BCE, the empire extended up to present-day [[Karnataka]] in the south, so the southern conquests may be attributed to either Chandragupta or his son Bindusara. If the Jain tradition about Chandragupta ending his life as a renunciate in Karnakata is considered correct, it appears that Chandragupta initiated the southern conquest.{{sfn|Kulke|Rothermund|2004|p=64}} | There is uncertainty about the other conquests that Chandragupta may have achieved, especially in the [[Deccan]] region of southern India.{{sfn|Habib|Jha|2004|p=19}} At the time of his grandson Ashoka's ascension in c. 268 BCE, the empire extended up to present-day [[Karnataka]] in the south, so the southern conquests may be attributed to either Chandragupta or his son Bindusara. If the Jain tradition about Chandragupta ending his life as a renunciate in Karnakata is considered correct, it appears that Chandragupta initiated the southern conquest.{{sfn|Kulke|Rothermund|2004|p=64}} | ||
Megasthenes defined the region that Chandragupta won from Seleucus as likely western side Gedrosia which shares boundaries with the Euphrates River, and eastern side Arachosia shares boundaries with the Indus. The northern frontier boundary formed by Hindukush mountain range: | |||
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India, which is in shape quadrilateral, has its eastern as well as its 'western side bounded by the great sea, but on the northern side it is divided by Mount Hemôdos from that part of Skythia which is inhabited by those Skythians who are called the Sakai, while the fourth or western side is bounded by the river called the Indus. | |||
- Book I Fragment I , Indica, Megasthanes[https://archive.org/details/AncientIndiaAsDescribedByMegasthenesAndArrianByMccrindleJ.W/page/n39/mode/1up] | |||
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[[File:SakastanMap.jpg|thumb|Satrapian provinces in northwestern India which ceaded to Chandragupta due to [[Treaty of Indus]]]] | |||
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Sandrokottos the king of the Indians, India forms the largest of the four parts into which Southorn Asia is divided, while the smallest part is that region which is included between the Euphrates and our own sea. The two remaining parts, which are separated from the others by the Euphrates and the Indus, and lie between these rivers... | |||
India is bounded on its eastern side, right onwards to the south, by the great ocean; that its northern frontier is formed by the Kaukasos range(Hindukush Range) as far as the junction of that range with Tauros; and that the boundary. | |||
- Book I Fragment II , Indica, Megasthanes[https://archive.org/details/AncientIndiaAsDescribedByMegasthenesAndArrianByMccrindleJ.W/page/n54/mode/1up] | |||
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Maurya with his counsellor [[Chanakya]] together built one of the largest empires ever on the [[Indian subcontinent]].<ref name=britchandrag>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chandragupta Chandragupta Maurya, Emperor of India] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310115220/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chandragupta |date=10 March 2018 }}, Encyclopædia Britannica</ref>{{sfn|Kulke|Rothermund|2004|p=59-65}}{{sfn|Boesche|2003|p=7-18}} Chandragupta's empire extended from [[Bengal]] to central [[Afghanistan]] encompassing most of the Indian subcontinent except for parts that are now [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Kerala]] and [[Odisha]](Kalinga).{{sfn|Mookerji|1988|pp=1-4}}{{sfn|Kulke|Rothermund|2004|p=59-65}} | Maurya with his counsellor [[Chanakya]] together built one of the largest empires ever on the [[Indian subcontinent]].<ref name=britchandrag>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chandragupta Chandragupta Maurya, Emperor of India] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310115220/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chandragupta |date=10 March 2018 }}, Encyclopædia Britannica</ref>{{sfn|Kulke|Rothermund|2004|p=59-65}}{{sfn|Boesche|2003|p=7-18}} Chandragupta's empire extended from [[Bengal]] to central [[Afghanistan]] encompassing most of the Indian subcontinent except for parts that are now [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Kerala]] and [[Odisha]](Kalinga).{{sfn|Mookerji|1988|pp=1-4}}{{sfn|Kulke|Rothermund|2004|p=59-65}} | ||