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surveys of Seleucus I Nicator, an officer of Alexander the Great and one of the Diadochi, who visited
India in 305 BCE. Greek traveller and geographer Megasthenes visited India sometime before
288 BCE (the date of Chandragupta's death) and mentioned the river in his Indica, where he
described the region around it as the land of Surasena.[20] In Mahabharata, the Pandava capital
of Indraprastha was situated on the banks of Yamuna, considered to be the site of modern Delhi.