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Ptolemy (2nd century CE), in his Geography, states that the Gangaridae occupied "all the region about the mouths of the Ganges". He names a city called Gange as their capital. This suggests that Gange was the name of a city, derived from the name of the river. Based on the city's name, the Greek writers used the word "Gangaridai" to describe the local people.

The founder of Mahapadma Nanda , who has been described in the Puranas as "the destroyer of all the Kshatriyas", defeated many other kingdoms, including the Panchalas, Kasis, Haihayas, Kalingas,Asmakas, Kurus, Maithilas, Surasenas and the Vitihotras to name a few. He expanded his territory south of the Vindhya Range into the Deccan Plateau from 345 BCE–321 BCE.

The same observation from Many ancient Greco-Roman writers to describe a people or a geographical entity of the Ganges/Bengal Delta in . Their writings describe Alexander the Great withdrew from the Indian subcontinent because of the strong Military force of the Gangaridai present Day Bengal .

Alexander crossed the Indus in 326 BC and fought and won an epic battle against King Porus, who ruled a region lying between the Hydaspes River Punjab, Therefore, Alexander turned south, advancing through southern Punjab and Sindh, along the way conquering more tribes along the lower Indus River. After conquering industry Alexander persuade his soldiers to march farther to Ganges delta to conquer Gangaridai the most prosperous region in South Asia.

According to Megasthenes, c. 350 – c. 290 BC) and many Greek scholars Alexander army denied to attack Gangaridai for its geographic defensive position and its Mighty military power.

Megasthenes, writes in his work Indika

Gangaridai, a nation which possesses a vast force of the largest-sized elephants. Owing to this, their country has never been conquered by any foreign king: for all other nations dread the overwhelming number and strength of these animals. Thus Alexander the Macedonian, after conquering all of Asia, did not make war upon the Gangaridai, as he did on all others; for when he had arrived with all his troops at the river Ganges, he abandoned as hopeless an invasion of the Gangaridai when he learned that they possessed four thousand elephants well trained and equipped for war.

According to the Puranas and vishakhadutta mudrarakaksha At its greatest extent, the empire ruled by the Nanda Dynasty extended from Bengal in the east, to the Punjab region in the west and as far south as the Vindhya Range

Diodorus mentions Gangaridai and Prasii as one nation, naming Xandramas as the king of this nation. Diodorus calls them "two nations under one king." Historian A. B. Bosworth believes that this is a reference to the Nanda dynasty, and the Nanda territory matches the ancient descriptions of kingdom in which the Gangaridae were located .

Mahapadma Nanda son Dhana Nanda is referred to as Agrammes or Xandrames by Diodorus (Greek historian)

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