Chandragupta's Macedonian wife - Page 2

Originally posted by: Historylover

Hello everyone!

I have been reading this forum since the starting of d show. i hav bcum a member of this forum just for this show. I felt gud to see so many intelligent people here and history lovers like me. Well, i thought of elaborating a few things about CGM's mecedonian wife. I read a book by Jay Shankar Prasad based on CGM & Chanakya. I think he is such a big name in the field of literature so he can't be wrong. Well, here are some facts according to that book:

1. Helen/Carnellia/Roseanne ( she had many names just like Chanakya), was a very lovely and very intelligent Greek girl. She was very much in love with India and its culture. She used to stay in Greek shivir with his father selucus and study sanskrit, hindi, grammer, Indian classical music, history, geography, ramayan etc. this shows that she had no problem in India and its culture.
2. CGM and her love was a love at first sight. They met before he killed Dhanand and became King of Magadh.
3. Their marriage alliance was a plan of Chanakya as ek panth do kaaj. Bcoz, CGM got the love of his life with this alliance as well as many parts of Ariana and Kandhar as a marriage gift by Selukus.
4. When he married Helen he was of the age b/w 18-20 not more than that. That was the last war of his life and later he ruled India for 16-20 yrs and died at the age of 42.
5. I think he married Durdhara quite later as he had no successor for the throne. And, there was no description of Durdhara by Jay Shankar prasad till Cgm's war with Seleucus. That book ended on CGM and Helen's marriage, so I am quite confused on Durdhara. So, this is it. But, I hope that Sagar's show a good love story of these two characters which is still unknown to world.😊

Originally posted by: rinku4u

Thanks 4 d info dear 😊 welcome to CGM 4um👏

My pleasure sweety 😃 thanks for welcoming me to this forum

Originally posted by: _Vrish_

Parina

Thanks. Was it you or someone else who once mentioned that there is a history forum on I-F? B'cos things like the Mythological forum, History forum ain't listed on the front page

Historylover

Thanks for this great info. Glad to know that she was not just a booty of war, but actually loved CGM and was familiar w/ his cultural environment.

One question - did she have any children from CGM? CGM became a Jain @ 38 (he was one for the last 4 years of his life after he abdicated) and so regardless of when they married, they could have had children.

I never knew that CGM had another wife named Duradhara, and I do hope that Chanakya didn't encourage him to have a harem just to shore up multiple alliances. But I was always under the impression that Bindusara was the offspring of CGM and Helen

Originally posted by: Historylover

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Originally posted by: Historylover

Hello everyone!

I have been reading this forum since the starting of d show. i hav bcum a member of this forum just for this show. I felt gud to see so many intelligent people here and history lovers like me. Well, i thought of elaborating a few things about CGM's mecedonian wife. I read a book by Jay Shankar Prasad based on CGM & Chanakya. I think he is such a big name in the field of literature so he can't be wrong. Well, here are some facts according to that book:

1. Helen/Carnellia/Roseanne ( she had many names just like Chanakya), was a very lovely and very intelligent Greek girl. She was very much in love with India and its culture. She used to stay in Greek shivir with his father selucus and study sanskrit, hindi, grammer, Indian classical music, history, geography, ramayan etc. this shows that she had no problem in India and its culture.
2. CGM and her love was a love at first sight. They met before he killed Dhanand and became King of Magadh.
3. Their marriage alliance was a plan of Chanakya as ek panth do kaaj. Bcoz, CGM got the love of his life with this alliance as well as many parts of Ariana and Kandhar as a marriage gift by Selukus.
4. When he married Helen he was of the age b/w 18-20 not more than that. That was the last war of his life and later he ruled India for 16-20 yrs and died at the age of 42.
5. I think he married Durdhara quite later as he had no successor for the throne. And, there was no description of Durdhara by Jay Shankar prasad till Cgm's war with Seleucus. That book ended on CGM and Helen's marriage, so I am quite confused on Durdhara. So, this is it. But, I hope that Sagar's show a good love story of these two characters which is still unknown to world.😊