# Treaty with Seleucus
**सेल्यूकस से संधि**

- Canonical page: https://indianepics.online/event/seleucid-treaty/
- Chapter: [The Mauryan Empire](https://indianepics.online/chapter/maurya.md)
- Track: evidence (archaeology and documents)
- When: 305 BCE – 303 BCE (± 2 years)
- Where: Kabul valley (Paropamisadae) (34.52, 69.18)
- Tags: political, war

## Summary

Seleucus Nicator gives Chandragupta lands along the Indus under a marriage pact and receives five hundred war elephants.

सेल्यूकस निकेटर ने वैवाहिक संधि के तहत सिंधु के किनारे के प्रदेश चंद्रगुप्त को दिए और बदले में पाँच सौ युद्ध-हाथी पाए।

## Account

Strabo says Seleucus gave Chandragupta part of the country along the Indus that Alexander had taken from the Persians, among the Paropamisadae, Arachosia and Gedrosia, "in consequence of a marriage contract", and received five hundred elephants. Appian adds only that the two kings fought, came to terms and became related by marriage.

How much land changed hands is argued: older accounts give Chandragupta the whole of those satrapies, some recent ones much less. Arachosia at least was Mauryan by Ashoka's reign, which is why his Greek and Aramaic edicts turn up at Kandahar some fifty years later. The elephants helped Seleucus win at Ipsus in 301 BCE.

## Sources

- Strabo, Geography 15.2.9 — http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0239:book=15:chapter=2:section=9
- Appian, Syriaca 55 — https://www.livius.org/sources/content/appian/appian-the-syrian-wars/appian-the-syrian-wars-11/
- Plutarch, Life of Alexander 62 (Androcottus gives Seleucus five hundred elephants)
- Schwartzberg, A Historical Atlas of South Asia, plate III.B.4 — https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/ (Maps the limit of the territories ceded after 305 BCE)

## Image

Seleuco I Nicatore. Unknown, CC BY-SA 2.0 it (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/it/deed.en), via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASeleuco_I_Nicatore.JPG

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