He was very inspired by these two countries...
India:
''' I am in the sea of wealth; the mighty land where dionysus were beaten. The end of the world. I have come beyond heracles.''
''Land of enlightenment''
I want her. I want to conquer her because she is the most beautiful. I know I can't do anything about it. She is calling me like a mother calls a lost child. She lures me like a siren and I grasp at her like a drowning man grasps at the last straw. You don't understand and it is good.
I know she is magnificent.
''The great land of sun . The great land of Calanus. The great land of great mothers.''
Calanus as per historians is rishi Kalyana.
Afghanistan:
I am involved in the land of a Leonine' (lion-like) and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a wall of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one Alexander into the world, but every mother in this land has brought an Alexander in the world.
May God keep you away from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the revenge of the Afghans.
God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.