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