'...The treaty with Seleucus appears to have involved a marriage alliance, and a present of 500 elephants to Seleucus (a fact noted with wonder by Plutarch) and the two leaders remained on friendly terms...
['...and Seleucus said 'here, I'll throw in this lion knick-knack as part of the deal...']
Also - thanks for the interesting background information on Ashoka and the Maurayans. I had not heard of this empire.
Yup.
There was a thriving Indo-Greek empire in what is now northwestern Pakistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seleucus_I_Nicator#Establishing_the_Seleucid_state
Establishing the Seleucid State