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Bhargavi

@Historylover

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Posted: 14 years ago

#21

Originally posted by: Ritu278
Thnx History lover for this wonderful data😊

Your welcome😊

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Ritu Aigal

@Ritu278

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Posted: 14 years ago

#22

Originally posted by: rinku4u

bindu sara was durdhara's son i am kind of sure of that . coz .. chanakya use to give a bit of poison everyday to CGM to make him immune to dat .without CGM's knowledge once Durdhara ate that food in 9th month of pregnancy. & she died . Chanakya saved her son named him Bindu-sara ... as a drop of poison already touched him😊& regarding this Macedonian wife , it was just a matrimonial alliance between the kingdoms 😊

Ya....the marriage with Selucus daughter was just a matrimonial alliance but i dont know abt Durdhara....if there was love btwn Durdhara and CGM then Sagars will surely not miss it😊...

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Ritu Aigal

@Ritu278

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Posted: 14 years ago

#23

If CGM and Helen's was love at first sight then dont expect it in the show coz the the sagars will make it long.....I can say this coz Prithviraj- Sanyogita's was also kinda love at first sight...but everyone(majority) know wat sagars had created in PRC😛

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Arunita Chandra

@RoseFairy

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Posted: 14 years ago

#24

Originally posted by: Ritu278
If CGM and Helen's was love at first sight then dont expect it in the show coz the the sagars will make it long.....I can say this coz Prithviraj- Sanyogita's was also kinda love at first sight...but everyone(majority) know wat sagars had created in PRC😛

i am agree with you ....sagars are just too much in case of changing story and history

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dolly

@tiny15

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Posted: 14 years ago

#25

hi frnds i m new 2 ur forum & i also like CGM. though its v.difft from chandra prakash dwivedi's Chanyakya but still watchable!!

though i don't know full history of CGM but i'd read history as a sub 4 UPSC exams so i can say that helena was chandrgupt's wife but she wasn't the only1. in those days kings 'd many wives ao as 2 increase their kingdoms. and i agree wid "historylover" abt almost he/she told but i don't know abt dhurdhara.

and bindusara wasn't the son of helena as chanyakya never allowed her & her son 2 visit the "darbar" bcoz she wasn't indian by birth!! and this was told by many ppl wen sonia gandhi was 2 b made PM!!so i m definite bindusara wasn't son of helena!!😊

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Abhiram Rao

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Posted: 14 years ago

#26

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:
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.
CGM and her love was a love at first sight. They met before he killed Dhanand and became King of Magadh.
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.
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.
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.😊
Nice to see so many history lovers here😃I am crazy abt history so watching the serial avidly!!!
Hope to see a Historical extravaganza in the coming episodes......😃

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Bhargavi

@Historylover

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Posted: 14 years ago

#27

Originally posted by: tiny15
hi frnds i m new 2 ur forum & i also like CGM. though its v.difft from chandra prakash dwivedi's Chanyakya but still watchable!!

though i don't know full history of CGM but i'd read history as a sub 4 UPSC exams so i can say that helena was chandrgupt's wife but she wasn't the only1. in those days kings 'd many wives ao as 2 increase their kingdoms. and i agree wid "historylover" abt almost he/she told but i don't know abt dhurdhara.

and bindusara wasn't the son of helena as chanyakya never allowed her & her son 2 visit the "darbar" bcoz she wasn't indian by birth!! and this was told by many ppl wen sonia gandhi was 2 b made PM!!so i m definite bindusara wasn't son of helena!!😊

Hi Tiny,

I m myself very much unsure on the topic of Durdhara. As I've already mentioned that the book I read ended on CGM & Helen's and there was no mention of Durdhara, I wish Jay Shankar Prasad would have written a little bit more about CGM's life after becoming the emperor. Later on, I tried to do little research but found nothing except the info available on internet. Let's wait and watch ki Sagar's apne show mein kya dikhaate hain.😊

Now about Helena's son, I am thinking Chanakya would have been able to stop him visiting "darbar" until he was a child, bt later on after growing up he must have fought for his rights being the eldest one... it's human nature isn't it? then it would have led to drifts against Bindusara, Chankya, even CGM and there would have been it's mention in the history isn't it? But again, there is no such mention. Anyways, Do you know what was the name of Helen's son? If yes, plz do tell me ... I'd love to know. 😃

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Arunita Chandra

@RoseFairy

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Posted: 14 years ago

#28

but cgm had only one son that is bindusara..as i told earlier that..cgm got married to helena..only 3-4 years before his death....so if there was a son of them...he is too young to make protest against bindusara....but there is no mention abt any son of helena....let's see sagars kya dikhate hai

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charu

@cjs369

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Posted: 14 years ago

#29

I had already posted this on th do u know thread... once again putting it up here as similar topic is getting discussed on this thread....

Chandragupta Maurya succeeded to the Nanda throne in 321 B.C
Once the Ganges valley was under his control, Chandragupta moved to the north-west to exploit the power vacuum created by Alexander's departure. The areas of the north-west fell to him rapidly until he reached the Indus. Here he paused for the moment, as the Greek Seleucid dynasty had fortified itself in Persia and was determined to hold the trans Indus region.

305 B.C. saw CGM back in the north-west involved in a campaign against Seleucus Nikator, which Chandragupta finally won in 303 B.C.
The treaty of 303 B.C. also included a marriage between Seleucus's daughter Helen with Chandragupta Maurya.

Chandragupta went to war with a Greek provincial governor named Seleucus Nikator who attemped to take part of the Punjab. After defeating Seleucus, a treaty of sorts was struck wherein the Greek would depart never to return. To seal the bargain Chandragupta gave Seleucus around 500 war elepants out of the 9000 available to him in exchange for the Greek holdings in Afganistan, Seleucus' own daughter and a few other women. The daughter and other's were not warriors in Greece, but they certainly were in India when Chandragupta finished with their training. The Greeks were a small portion of his guard to be sure, but they served well.

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Bhargavi

@Historylover

Dazzler

Posted: 14 years ago

#30

Originally posted by: jhum_86
but cgm had only one son that is bindusara..as i told earlier that..cgm got married to helena..only 3-4 years before his death....so if there was a son of them...he is too young to make protest against bindusara....but there is no mention abt any son of helena....let's see sagars kya dikhate hai

Nahi yaar CGM died at the age of 42 and before that he ruled for 16-20 yrs i m sure abt that so acc to this info he became an emperor at the age of nearly 20 only and his last battle was with selecus, i m sure abt that too and that means marriage alliance jab hua hoga he must have been quite young. I am so confused. Yeh bhi toh ho sakta hai ki CGM and Helen had no child and that's why he married Durdhara, I can't say anything abt it coz I m totally confused.😕 Again, let's see sagar's kya dikhate hain.😊

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