The immense military consolidation under the Nanda dynasty of Magadha acted as a primary psychological deterrent that forced the weary Macedonian army of Alexander the Great to retreat at which river border?

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Classical Greek sources document that the Nanda empire maintained a vast standing army consisting of two hundred thousand infantry, twenty thousand cavalry, two thousand chariots, and three thousand trained war elephants. Reports of this massive military deployment caused a mutiny among Alexanders soldiers at the Beas river, forcing him to abort his eastward invasion plan.

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