War across the Sindhu Delta | |||||||||
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Part of Chandragupta II's campaigns and Sasanian–Gupta Wars | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Gupta Empire | |||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Chandragupta II | Unknown | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
unknown |
Persian contingents were cut down and chased westwards [a] Yavana contingent completely wiped out [b] |
"...He (emperor Chandra...by whom...having crossed in warfare the seven mouths of the (river) Sindhu..."
As the Gupta army advanced, they had to cross several marshy and shallow creeks and sea inlets along the delta coast. We can get a picture of the geography of the region where the army marched from the following description of a 1st century CE Greek work called Periplus of the Erythraean Sea:
"Beyond this region ( Gedrosia), the continent (east of Makran) makes a wide curve from east the depths of the bays, there follows the coastal district ...the whole marshy, from which flows the river Sinthus ( Sindhu)...bringing down on enormous volume of water...This river has seven mouths, very shallow and marshy; so that they are not navigable except the one in the middle..." [1]
"...He (the Indian emperor) could not bear the flush caused by the wine in the lotus-faces of the Yavana women, just as the gathering of unreasonable clouds (does not bear and destroys) the young sun (the friend) of the water-lotuses..."
Here Kalidasa very poetically and allegorically paints the desolate picture of the outcome of the battle. The mirth and fun filled celebration of the Yavana settlement was broken due to the news of the death of the Yavana men in battle." [2]
The Udayagiri inscription of Chandragupta's foreign minister Virasena suggests that the king had a distinguished military career. It states that he "bought the earth", paying for it with his prowess, and reduced the other kings to the status of slaves. [3] His empire seems to have extended from the mouth of the Indus and northern Pakistan in the west to the Bengal region in the east, and from the Himalayan terai region in the north to the Narmada River in the south. [4] [5]
War across the Sindhu Delta | |||||||||
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Part of Chandragupta II's campaigns and Sasanian–Gupta Wars | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Gupta Empire | |||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Chandragupta II | Unknown | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
unknown |
Persian contingents were cut down and chased westwards [a] Yavana contingent completely wiped out [b] |
"...He (emperor Chandra...by whom...having crossed in warfare the seven mouths of the (river) Sindhu..."
As the Gupta army advanced, they had to cross several marshy and shallow creeks and sea inlets along the delta coast. We can get a picture of the geography of the region where the army marched from the following description of a 1st century CE Greek work called Periplus of the Erythraean Sea:
"Beyond this region ( Gedrosia), the continent (east of Makran) makes a wide curve from east the depths of the bays, there follows the coastal district ...the whole marshy, from which flows the river Sinthus ( Sindhu)...bringing down on enormous volume of water...This river has seven mouths, very shallow and marshy; so that they are not navigable except the one in the middle..." [1]
"...He (the Indian emperor) could not bear the flush caused by the wine in the lotus-faces of the Yavana women, just as the gathering of unreasonable clouds (does not bear and destroys) the young sun (the friend) of the water-lotuses..."
Here Kalidasa very poetically and allegorically paints the desolate picture of the outcome of the battle. The mirth and fun filled celebration of the Yavana settlement was broken due to the news of the death of the Yavana men in battle." [2]
The Udayagiri inscription of Chandragupta's foreign minister Virasena suggests that the king had a distinguished military career. It states that he "bought the earth", paying for it with his prowess, and reduced the other kings to the status of slaves. [3] His empire seems to have extended from the mouth of the Indus and northern Pakistan in the west to the Bengal region in the east, and from the Himalayan terai region in the north to the Narmada River in the south. [4] [5]