 A locally-made vase fragment that was found in Peshawar depicts a scene from Sophocles' play "Antigone".Following the Seleucid–Mauryan war, the region was ceded to the Mauryan Empire in 303 BCE.Around 300 BCE, the Greek diplomat and historian Megasthenes noted that Purushapura (ancient Peshawar) was the western terminus of a Mauryan road that connected the city to the empire's capital at "Pataliputra", near the city of Patna in the modern-day Indian state of Bihar.