STUDY TOUR

STUDY TOUR

PLACE

v Rameswaram

v Madurai

^v   Kodaikanal

   INTRODUCTION

                     We the B.Ed students got a golden oppertunity to visit Rameshwaram and Kodaikanal.We forgot our bury college day and enjoyed our level best.It was a two day trip from 5.5.2016 to 8.5.2016.Our teachers and friends enjoyed the trip very much.We 24 students and 6 teachers were attended the trip.I forgot my all tensions and enjoyed the trip.It was an everlasting memory to all of us.Away from home and everyday life we have the oppertunity to be inspired try out new thing,learn and aquire experience and new interested in a new exiting environment but also to rest and take a welcomes.

OBJECTIVES

• To impart knowledge about eco-friendly life.So that the students aquire the skill of live in perfect harmony with nature.
• To improve the students happiness through their mind.
• To gain the clear idea the natural resource.
• To get a refreshment and enjoyment from bury college life.

TRIP AT A GLANCE

              Study tour enhances intellectual and enjoyment happiness to the students .It is both pleasurable and information seeking one.Our study tour was a happiest one .There were 24 students,6 teaching staffs and one non teaching staff.

5.5.2016

Thursday

              We started our journey at 9:30 p.m.In our tourist bus ,so many students wew started to dancing and whisting.I am egarlly happy to see their enjoyment .For the students necessary needs like first aid things and students drinking water etc were previously packed and Rajesh sir assigned some students for its duty.We saw different shops,beautiful house rivers streams,temples,mosques etc on the way.We saw a film "Vellaram kannulla vellimoonga".That time some students stept in the bus.

6.5.2016

Friday

           At 6.00 a.m we reached Rameshwaram were I saw so many other tourists.Then we got some time for become fresh.Then at 9.00a.m we went to Rameshwaram Shiva Temple in to two mini buses.The temple is known as "Rameshwaram temple" is a hindu temple decided to the God Shiva located on Rameshwaram Island in the state of Tamil Nadu.Many of the students were entered in to the temple and visited .But three or four students were stand out side temple.

7.5.2016

Saturday 

          Our bus began to run high range in early morning.It felt my head round when the bus circle in the high rangr road.We reached the kodaikanal lake at 9:30 a.m. Kodaikanal lake is also known as Kodai lake is a manmode lake located in the lake is said to ne Kodaikanal most popular geographic land mark and tourist attraction.

Rameswaram

Ramanathaswamy Temple 

Ramanathaswamy Temple is a Hindu Temple dedicated to the god Shiva located on Rameswaram island in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. It is also one of the twelve Jyotirlinga temples.It is one of the 274 Paadal Petra Sthalams, where the three of the most revered Nayanars (Saivite saints),  Appar,  Sundarar and  Tirugnana Sambandar,  have glorified the temple with their songs. The temple was expanded during the 12th century by Pandya Dynasty, and its principal shrines sanctum were renovated by Jeyaveera Cinkaiariyan and his successor Gunaveera Cinkaiariyan of the Jaffna kingdom. The temple has the longest corridor among all Hindu temples in India.^[1] The temple is located in Rameswaram considered a holy pilgrimage site for Shaivites,  Vaishnavites and Smarthas. The presiding deity, the Lingam of Ramanathaswamy (Shiva), is believed to have been established and worshiped by Rama, an avatar of the god Vishnu, to absolve the sins created during the Ramayana war at Sri Lanka

Rameswaram Beach

However Rameswaram Island is covered with sea on all of its sides, Sea Shores available on all of its corners , all them are not sandy, pebbly Beaches. The list of the Beaches in Rameswaram is given below. Click on the corresponding images to know more about them Every day thousands of pilgrims took bath in these holy seas. These spots also serves as a tourist attraction in Rameswaram. Holistic rituals such as prohithams, yangnya(yaham), tharpanam (ritual for the ancestorswho were dead) has been performed in the shores of Agni theertham.Dhanushkodi beach extends upto 15 Km long. The shore in the place called mukundharayar chathram is safest region for taking baths and playing in the high tide sea. since the tides of the sea is very high (maximum height registered as 12 feet) it is not suitable for the persons who don’t know swimming. The beach bike ride in this sea shore is ecstatic experience.

Rameshwaram Ramar Patham

This is a small hillock which has got the divine feet of lord Rama.it is also said the hangman crossed the sea from here only to srilanka.he used this hillock to jump to Lanka as this the highest point in rameswaram in the olden days,

One pujari is here for only collecting money but not explaining anything to any visitors.

Abdul Kalams House

Located favorably on Mosque Street, the Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam House is an interesting place to visit. Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam is a renowned scientist and writer, who was born and brought up in the town of Rameswaram. At present, his residence has been converted into a museum that stocks his childhood memoirs. The place is ideal to get a glimpse into the extraordinary life of this simple man, right from childhood to his research days. Several pictures and awards of Dr. Kalam are kept on display in this two-storey building, which is maintained by his elder brother. Moreover, a section of the house has been turned into a store that sells a variety of merchandise.

Rameswaram Floating Stones

            Here is a small temple known as PanchMukhi Hanuman...quiet close to the Rameshwaram Bus Station . This is just like any another Lord Hanuman Temple except that you will find the floating stone ...which was used by 'Nal - Neil ' to build the stone bridge to Sri Lanka ... Initially when I saw this ...I thought it to be a huge Wood Log ..And I was really damn sure..as I was not allowed to touch the same ....but there was another such stone which the temple priest allowed me to touch ...It was a real hard rock ..and it was floating on the water .( there was a drum full of water ) ..on which these two big , sized roughly around 10kg each stone were floating ..I touched that and pushed it down...And it came back ...The stone indeed looked very  old . No Doubt the Civil Engineers were really smart than today’s. True as per the Legends these were the stone using which Rama crossed the Deep Sea to invade Lanka to free her wife ...and to kill the Demon Ravana

Pamban Bridge 

                Pamban Bridge is a railway bridge which connects the town of Rameswaram on Pamban Island to mainland India. Opened on 24 February 1914, it was India's first sea bridge, and was the longest sea bridge in India until the opening of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in 2010. The rail bridge is, for the most part, a conventional bridge resting on concrete piers, but has a double-leaf bascule section midway, which can be raised to let ships and barges pass through.

Meenakshi

Meenakshi Amman Temple 

Meenakshi Amman Temple is a historic Hindu temple located on the southern bank of the Vaigai River in the temple city of Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India. It is dedicated to Parvati, known as Meenakshi, and her consort, Shiva, here named Sundareswarar.^[4] The temple forms the heart and lifeline of the 2,500-year-old city of Madurai and is a significant symbol for the Tamil people, mentioned since antiquity in Tamil literature. Though most of the present structure was built between 1623 and 1655 CE.^[6][7][8] It is said that the temple was originally built in the 6th century BC by survivors of the Kumari Kandam. In the 14th century, the Sultanate Muslim Commander Malik Kafur plundered the temple and looted it of its valuables. It was rebuilt by the Nayak ruler Vishwanatha Nayakar around the 16th century. It was Vishwanatha Nayaka who rebuilt the temple in accordance to shilpa shastra. It houses 14 gopurams (gateway towers), ranging from 45–50m in height. The tallest is the southern tower, 51.9 metres (170 ft) high, and two golden sculptured vimanas, the shrines over the garbhagrihas (sanctums) of the main deities. The temple attracts 15,000 visitors a day, around 25,000 on Fridays,^[9] and receives an annual revenue of ₹ 60 million. There are an estimated 33,000 sculptures in the temple. It was on the list of top 30 nominees for the "New Seven Wonders of the World". The temple is the most prominent landmark and most visited tourist attraction in the city. The annual 10-day Meenakshi Tirukalyanam festival, celebrated during April and May, attracts 1 million visitors.

Kodaikanal

Kodaikanal Lake

Kodaikanal Lake, also known as Kodai Lake is a manmade lake located in the Kodaikanal city in Dindigul district in Tamil Nadu, India. Sir Vere Henry Levinge, the then Collector of Madurai, was instrumental in creating the lake in 1863, amidst the Kodaikanal town which was developed by the British and early missionaries from USA. The lake is said to be Kodaikanal's most popular geographic landmark and tourist attraction. Over the years a boat club, boathouse and boat service (with rowing boats and pedalling boats and a public ferry) for the public and tourists has become fully functional and is of aesthetic significance for tourism. Boat Pageant and Flower Shows are a regular feature in the summer season which attracts tourists.

kodaikanal la saleth church

La Saleth is one of the oldest churches of the state of Tamil Nadu. This is one of the two churches dedicated to the memory of Lady of La Saleth in the whole world, the other one is in France. La Saleth Church is located in Kodaikanal district of Tamil Nadu and is distinct than other churches in the region in many ways. It is just two kilometers from Kodaikanal bus stop. La Saleth is only church in India that commemorates the memory of ‘Lady of La Saleth’ and also the first one built in the memory of Mother Saleth. La Saleth Church is more than 130 years old and is one of the most popular churches in Kodaikanal. The church was built by Father Saint Cheer in 1866 after an interesting incident in his life. The Father suffered from severe illness and persistent fever in 1958. When all medications failed, he turned to faith and prayed to Lady of La Saleth. He recovered miraculously in no time. This incident led to the decision to build a church in memory of Mother Saleth.

Pillar Rocks

Pillar Rocks, 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from the bus-stand, is a set of three giant rock pillars which stand 122 metres (400 ft) high. Managed by the Tamil Nadu Forest Department, The viewpoint can be crowded but is not commercialized. There is an excellent public garden adjacent to the viewpoint.

Pine forests

Pine forests, In 1906, with a view to growing valuable timber, Mr. Bryant started the Kodaikanal pine plantations in the south-west of Kodaikanal.

Green Valley

Green Valley View is place from which you can get an amazing view of the plains from Kodaikanal. This view point, erstwhile known as "Suicide Point" has been renamed presently as "Green Valley View". This place is situated near the Kodaikanal Golf Club and on the way to the Pillar Rocks. Standing in this point, you get an bird's eyeview of the 5000 ft deep valley with all the flora and fauna and the Vaigai Dam, to some extent. But, the views solely depend on your luck and time, as this place gets misty too often. If there is mist also, you may wait for sometime and it gets cleared and the views from here are amazing.

COMMUNITY LINING CAMP (SEMESTER-3)

  THIRD SEMESTER

 RECORD OF COMMUNITY LIVING CAMP

29 APRIL TO 3 MAY 2016

 PROGRAMME SCHEDULE :

          FIRST DAY

           29/4/2016:

                           

  MORNING SESSION

• 10.00-11.00   :       INAUGURATION
• 11.00-11.30   ;       TEA BREAK
• 11.30-12.00   :       BASIC GROUP FORMATION

AFTER SESSION 

• 12.00-1.00    :        TASK PRESENTATION: GROUP DISCUSSION
• 1.00-2.00      :        LUNCH
• 2.00-3.00      :        ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILL(SRI. LAL RAJ,  GOVT. H S S. KNJM)
• 3.00-5.00      :        GROUP DISCUSSION:COMMUNICATION SKILL
•  5.00-7.00     :        TEA BREAK
• 5.00-6.00      :        VISITORS TIME
• 6.00-7.00      :        PRAYER TIME
• 7.30-9.00      :        CULTURAL ACTIVITY
• 9.00              :        SUPPER

SECOND DAY

30/4/2016

MORNING SESSION

• 5.30-6.30      :         YOGA
• 6.30-7.30      :         PERSONAL TIME
• 7.39-8.00       :        BREAK FAST
• 8.00-12.00     :        ARTS AND AESTHETIC CLASS(Mrs. Devika school of dance ,music)

AFTERNOON SESSION

• 1.00-2.00      :        LUNCH
• 2.00-4.00      :        CLASS CONTINUED
• 6.30-7.30      :       TEA BREAK AND VISITORS TIME
• 6.30-7.30      :        PRAYER TIME
• 7.30-9.00      :        CULTURAL TIME
• 9.00              :         SUPPER

THIRD DAY

1/5/2016

MORNING SESSION

• 5.30-6.30      :         YOGA
• 6/30-7.30      :         PERSONAL TIME
• 7.39-8.00       :        BREAK FAST
• 9.00-12.00     :       KAVIYARANGU (Mr. sumesh krishna , mambazham frime)

AFTERNOON SESSION

• 1.00-2.00      :        LUNCH
• 2.00-4.00      :       CYBER CRIME (ADVACATE SAJEEV)
• 5.30-6.30      :       TEA BREAK AND VISITORS TIME
• 6.30-7.30      :        PRAYER TIME
• 7.30-9.00      :        CULTURAL TIME
• 9.00              :         SUPPER

FOURTH DAY

2/5/2016

MORNING SESSION

• 5.30-6.30      :         YOGA
• 6/30-7.30      :         PERSONAL TIME
• 7.39-8.00       :        BREAK FAST
• 9.00-12.00     :       HEALTH EDUCATION(,HEALTH CENTER BALARAMAPURAM)

AFTERNOON SESSION

• 1.00-2.00      :        LUNCH
• 2.00-3.00      :        CLEANING
• 3.30-6.00      :        OUTING(KOCHEDUTHUA)
• 6.30-7.30      :        PRAYER TIME
• 7.30-9.00      :        CULTURAL TIME
• 9.00              :         SUPPER

FIFTH DAY

3/5/2016

MORNING SESSION

• 5.30-6.30      :         YOGA
• 6/30-7.30      :         PERSONAL TIME
• 7.39-8.00       :        BREAK FAST
• 9.00-10.30     :         CLOSING CEREMONY.  

SUBJECT ASSOCIATE ACTIVITY

   SUBJECT ASSOCIATE       ACTIVITY

Chandragupta Maurya

Statue of Chandragupta Maurya, Laxminarayan Temple

was the founder of the Maurya Empire and the first emperor to unify north and south west of present-day India into one state. He ruled from 324 BCE until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his son, Bindusara, in 297 BCE.Chandragupta Maurya was a pivotal figure in the history of India. Prior to his consolidation of power, most of the Indian subcontinent was divided into mahajanapadas, while the Nanda Empire dominated the Indo-Gangetic Plain.^[5] Chandragupta succeeded in conquering and subjugating almost all of the Indian subcontinent by the end of his reign, except Tamil Nadu (Chera, Early Cholas and Early Pandyan Kingdom) and modern-day Odisha (Kalinga). His empire extended from Bengal in the east to Aria or Herat in the west (now called Afghanistan and Balochistan), to the Himalayas and Kashmir in the north, and to the Deccan Plateau in the south. It was the largest empire yet seen in Indian history.In Greek and Latin accounts, Chandragupta is known as Sandrokottos and Androcottus. He became well known in the Hellenistic world for conquering Alexander the Great's easternmost satrapies, and for defeating the most powerful of Alexander's successors, Seleucus I Nicator, in battle. By 323 BC he freed the piece of territory of India that was controlled by Seleuces, following Alexander's retreat.  Chandragupta subsequently married Seleucus' daughter to formalise an alliance and turning Nicator into a satrap, and established a policy of friendship with the Hellenistic kingdoms, which stimulated India's trade and contact with the western world. The Greek diplomat Megasthenes, who visited the Maurya capital Pataliputra, is an important source of Maurya history.

                           After unifying much of India, Chandragupta and his chief advisor Chanakya passed a series of major economic and political reforms. He established a strong central administration patterned after Chanakya's text on politics, the Arthashastra. Chandragupta's India was characterised by an efficient and highly organised bureaucratic structure with a large civil service. Due to its unified structure, the empire developed a strong economy, with internal and external trade thriving and agriculture flourishing. In both art and architecture, the Maurya Empire made important contributions, deriving some of its inspiration from the culture of the Achaemenid Empire and the Hellenistic world.^[10] Chandragupta's reign was a time of great social and religious reform in India. Buddhism and Jainism became increasingly prominent. According to Jain accounts, Chandragupta abdicated his throne in favour of his son Bindusara, embraced Jainism, and followed Bhadrabahu and other monks to South India. He is said to have ended his life at Shravanabelagola (in present-day Karnataka) through Sallekhana.

                           The sources which describe the life of Chandragupta Maurya includes Jain, Buddhist, Brahmanical, Latin and Greek sources. Jain sources are Bhadrabahu's Kalpasutra and Hemachandra's Parisishtaparvan. Brahmanical sources are Puranas,  Chanakya's Arthashastra,  Vishakhadatta's Mudrarakshasa,  Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara and Kshemendra's Brihatkathamanjari. Buddhist sources are Dipavamsa, Mahavamsa, Mahavamsa tika and Mahabodhivamsa.

                         Very little is known about Chandragupta's youth and ancestry.  What is known is gathered from later classical Sanskrit literature, as well as classical Greek and Latin sources which refer to Chandragupta by the names "Sandrokottos" or "Androcottus".

                       Many Indian literary traditions connect him with the Nanda Dynasty in modern-day Bihar in eastern India.  More than half a millennium later, the Sanskrit drama Mudrarakshasa calls him a "Nandanvaya", i.e. the descendant of Nanda. Chandragupta was born into a family left destitute by the death of his father, chief of the migrant Mauryas, in a border fray.  Mudrarakshasa uses terms like kula-hina and Vrishala for Chandragupta's lineage.  According to Bharatendu Harishchandra's translation of the play, his father was the Nanda king Mahananda and his mother was a barber's wife named Mora, hence the surname Maurya.  This reinforces Justin's contention that Chandragupta had a humble origin. On the other hand, the same play describes the Nandas as of Prathita-kula, i.e. illustrious, lineage.

                      The Buddhist text, the Mahavamsa, calls Chandragupta a member of a division of the (Kshatriya) clan called the Moriya.^. The Mahaparinibbana Sutta states that the Moriyas (Mauryas) belonged to the Kshatriya community of Pippalivana i.e. possibly Pipli on the outskirts of Kurukshetra.  These traditions indicate that Chandragupta came from a Kshatriya lineage. The Mahavamshatika connects him with the Shakya clan of the Buddha, a clan which also belongs to the race of Ādityas.

                    In Buddhist tradition, Chandragupta Maurya was a member of the Kshatriyas and that his son, Bindusara, and grandson, the famous Buddhist Ashoka, were of Kshatriya lineage, perhaps of the Sakya line. (The Sakya line of Kshatriyas is considered to be the lineage of Gautama Buddha, and Ashoka billed himself as "Buddhi Sakya" in one of his inscriptions.)  Puranas too depict Chandragupta from a Kshatriya lineage. Jain text Parisishtaparvan talks of Chandragupta's mother as a daughter of village chieftian who were rearers of royal peacocks. Plutarch reports that he met with Alexander the Great in Punjab,^[24] and that he viewed the ruling Nanda Empire in a negative light: Androcottus, when he was a stripling, saw Alexander himself, and we are told that he often said in later times that Alexander narrowly missed making himself master of the country, since its king was hated and despised on account of his baseness and low birth.

                 According to this text, the encounter would have happened around 326 BCE suggesting a birth date for Chandragupta around 340 BCE. Plutarch and other Greco-Roman historians appreciated the gravity of Chandragupta Maurya's conquests. Justin describes the humble origins of Chandragupta, and explains how he later led a popular uprising against the Nanda king.

Chandragupta completed his education in Taxila university.

Foundation of the Maurya Empire

                      Chandragupta Maurya led a war of independence from Greek rule around 325 BC and achieved victory around 323 BC. After that, he, along with Chanakya, gathered an army from Punjab and started invading Magadha on the frontiers.

Nanda army

            

The Nanda Empire at its greatest extent under Dhana Nanda circa 323 BCE

        According to Plutarch, at the time of the Battle of the Hydaspes, the Nanda Empire's army numbered 200,000 infantry, 80,000 cavalry, 8,000 chariots, and 6,000 war elephants, which discouraged Alexander's men and prevented their further progress into India:As for the Macedonians, however, their struggle with Porus blunted their courage and stayed their further advance into India. For having had all they could do to repulse an enemy who mustered only twenty thousand infantry and two thousand horse, they violently opposed Alexander when he insisted on crossing the river Ganges also, the width of which, as they learned, was thirty-two furlongs, its depth a hundred fathoms, while its banks on the further side were covered with multitudes of men-at‑arms and horsemen and elephants. For they were told that the kings of the Ganderites and Praesii were awaiting them with eighty thousand horsemen, two hundred thousand footmen, eight thousand chariots, and six thousand fighting elephants. And there was no boasting in these reports. For Androcottus, who reigned there not long afterwards, made a present to Seleucus of five hundred elephants, and with an army of six hundred thousand men overran and subdued all India.

Silver punch mark coin of the Maurya empire, with symbols of wheel and elephant (3rd century BCE)

Conquest of Macedonian territories in India

After Alexander's death in 323 BCE, Chandragupta turned his attention to Northwestern South Asia (modern Pakistan), where he defeated the satrapies (described as "prefects" in classical Western sources) left in place by Alexander (according to Justin), and may have assassinated two of his governors, Nicanor and Philip. The satrapies he fought may have included Eudemus, ruler in western Punjab until his departure in 317 BCE; and Peithon, ruler of the Greek colonies along the Indus River until his departure for Babylon in 316 BCE. The Roman historian Justin described how Sandrocottus (the Greek version of Chandragupta's name) conquered the northwest:

Some time after, as he was going to war with the generals of Alexander, a wild elephant of great bulk presented itself before him of its own accord, and, as if tamed down to gentleness, took him on its back, and became his guide in the war, and conspicuous in fields of battle. Sandrocottus, having thus acquired a throne, was in possession of India, when Seleucus was laying the foundations of his future greatness; who, after making a league with him, and settling his affairs in the east, proceeded to join in the war against Antigonus. As soon as the forces, therefore, of all the confederates were united, a battle was fought, in which Antigonus was slain, and his son Demetrius put to flight.

Conquest of Seleucus' eastern territories

After Alexander's death in 323 BCE, Chandragupta turned his attention to Northwestern South Asia (modern Pakistan), where he defeated the satrapies (described as "prefects" in classical Western sources) left in place by Alexander (according to Justin), and may have assassinated two of his

Chandragupta had defeated the remaining Macedonian satrapies in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent by 317 BCE.

governors, Nicanor and Philip. The satrapies he fought may have included Eudemus, ruler in western Punjab until his departure in 317 BCE; and Peithon, ruler of the Greek colonies along the Indus River until his departure for Babylon in 316 BCE. The Roman historian Justin described how Sandrocottus (the Greek version of Chandragupta's name) conquered the northwest:

Some time after, as he was going to war with the generals of Alexander, a wild elephant of great bulk presented itself before him of its own accord, and, as if tamed down to gentleness, took him on its back, and became his guide in the war, and conspicuous in fields of battle. Sandrocottus, having thus acquired a throne, was in possession of India, when Seleucus was laying the foundations of his future greatness; who, after making a league with him, and settling his affairs in the east, proceeded to join in the war against Antigonus. As soon as the forces, therefore, of all the confederates were united, a battle was fought, in which Antigonus was slain, and his son Demetrius put to flight.

Conquest of Seleucus' eastern territories

Seleucus I Nicator, a Macedonian general of Alexander, who after Alexander's death, in 312 BCE, established the Seleucid Kingdom with capital Babylon, reconquered most of Alexander's former empire in Asia and put under his own authority the eastern territories as far as Bactria and the Indus (Appian, History of Rome, The Syrian Wars 55),^[34] and in 305 BCE he entered into conflict with Chandragupta (in Greek Sandrocottus): Always lying in wait for the neighboring nations, strong in arms and persuasive in council, he acquired Mesopotamia, Armenia, 'Seleucid' Cappadocia, Persis, Parthia, Bactria, Arabia, Tapouria, Sogdia, Arachosia, Hyrcania, and other adjacent peoples that had been subdued by Alexander, as far as the river Indus, so that the boundaries of his empire were the most extensive in Asia after that of Alexander. The whole region from Phrygia to the Indus was subject to Seleucus. He crossed the Indus and waged war with Sandrocottus [Maurya], king of the 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.

                 The exact details of engagement are not known. As noted by scholars such as R. C. Majumdar and D. D. Kosambi, Seleucus appears to have fared poorly, having ceded large territories west of the Indus to Chandragupta. Due to his defeat, Seleucus surrendered  Arachosia  (modern Kandahar),  Gedrosia  (modern Balochistan) , Paropamisadae (or Gandhara). Mainstream scholarship asserts that Chandragupta received vast territory west of the Indus, including the Hindu Kush, modern day Afghanistan, and the Balochistan province of Pakistan.^[38][39] Archaeologically, concrete indications of Maurya rule, such as the inscriptions of the Edicts of Ashoka, are known as far as Kandhahar in southern Afghanistan. After having made a peace treaty with him [Sandrakotos] and put in order the Orient situation, Seleucos went to war against Antigonus.

                        Per Strabo, in Geography, Chandragupta married Seleucus's daughter to formalize the peace treaty. In a return gesture, Chandragupta sent 500 war-elephants,  a military asset which would play a decisive role at the Battle of Ipsus in 302 BCE. In addition to this treaty, Seleucus dispatched an ambassador, Megasthenes, to Chandragupta, and later Antiochos sent Deimakos to his son Bindusara, at the Maurya court at Pataliputra (modern Patna in Bihar state).  Later Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt and contemporary of Ashoka the Great, is also recorded by Pliny the Elder as having sent an ambassador named Dionysius to the Maurya court.

                     Classical sources have also recorded that following their treaty, Chandragupta and Seleucus exchanged presents, such as when Chandragupta sent various aphrodisiacs to Seleucus:

                  And Theophrastus says that some contrivances are of wondrous efficacy in such matters [as to make people more amorous]. And Phylarchus confirms him, by reference to some of the presents which Sandrakottus, the king of the Indians, sent to Seleucus; which were to act like charms in producing a wonderful degree of affection, while some, on the contrary, were to banish love

 

Chandra Gupta Maurya entertains his bride from Babylon": a conjectural interpretation of the "marriage agreement" between the Seleucids and Chandragupta Maurya, related by Appian.