Originally posted by: aishwish
You know prem I just don't get it how you manage to "doubt" everything which you contradict and be "SURE" about your points put forward.
Firstly historians never suggest anything about nandini's age... because for them she don't exist or non exist ...thanks to bindusaar historians agree that CGM had a lady in his life must be his wife who was the mother of his son.No historian accept that her name was durdhara. Even with helena the name comes from Jaishankar prasad's drama called chankaya. ..it is generally held that CGM married a daughter of Seleucus though it is nor warranted by known facts.
Secondly child marriage was not prevalent in 4 century BC...not all historians except it. Many of them on the contrary has a view that child marriage in India started around 1000 years ago with muslim invavsion.
Historians accept that CGM killed nand before he ascended throne at the age of 20 so why would he wait to be 32 years to marry nand's daughter(in case he married) is just plain unintelligible to me.
And please I have said this on your previous thread (which I doubt you bothered to check) and still saying megasthanese , abul fazal and their likes are NOT historians and neither their works are history they are merely ACCOUNTS!! Not even chanakya's arthashatra
The topic maker just merely shared a piece of information that she found ...she is time and again accepting that facts are hazy, we are all for that matter...and its high time that you accepted it as well that when it comes to CGM accepted textbook history has very less to offer and historians very less to say...we can't safely assume anything!! Just because you are adding at the end of every point you present "historians accept it" will not make it historians accept it. Kindly next time try quoting the historian with his/her name and when I say historians I mean HISTORIANS
@Siva: thanks for the information ...it always is good to know what different versions have to present!! Though I said and you said as well everything is hazy and its interesting to see so many interpretation