Battle on the Sindhu River | |||||||||
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Part of Shunga-Greek War | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Shunga Empire | Greco-Bactrian Kingdom | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Vasumitra |
Demetrius II |
An account of a direct battle between the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and the Shunga dynasty is also found in the Mālavikāgnimitram, a play by Kālidāsa which describes a battle between a squadron of Greek cavalrymen and Vasumitra, the grandson of Pushyamitra, accompanied by a hundred soldiers on the "Sindhu river", in which the Indians defeated a squadron of Greeks and Pushyamitra successfully completed the Ashvamedha Yagna.[1] This river may be the Indus River in the northwest, but such expansion by the Shungas is unlikely, and it is more probable that the river mentioned in the text is the Sindh River or the Kali Sindh River in the Ganges Basin.[2]
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