BINDUSARA

BINDUSARA

Chandragupta was succeeded by his son,l3indw>ara. Bindusara maintained friendly ties with the Hellenic West. A Greek envoy, Deimachos, was at his court. Accorcimg to
AtllenacJ1S, Bindusara requested Antiochus I, the ,Se1euda ~king of Syria, to send a present of figs, wine and a sophist. Antiochus sent the figs and wine, but replied that Greek phjlosophe.rs were not for export. Bindusara not only held the great empire intact but probably. added to it ip .the Deccan. He was succeeded in about 269 BC, probably'after four years of his death, by his son Asoka.