THE KING WHO HALTED ALEXANDER FROM COMQUERING INDIA
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Lord Porus of Paurava was a significant ruler in the Indian subcontinent during the fourth century BCE. Porus savagely struggled Alexander the Great, and endure that fight as well as tried for some degree of reconciliation with him and acquired a much bigger guideline in Punjab in what is today Pakistan. Inquisitively, his story is written in various Greek sources (Plutarch, Arrian, Diodorus, and Ptolemy, among others) however scarcely referenced in Indian sources, a reality which drives a few antiquarians to ponder about the "serene" finishing.
Porus, additionally spelled Poros and Puru in Sanskrit, was one of the last individuals from the line of Puru, a family known both in India and Iran and said to have begun from Central Asia. The tribe families were individuals from the Parvatiya ("mountain dwellers") referenced by Greek scholars. Porus managed over the land between the Hydaspes (Jhelum) and the Acesines streams in the Punjab area and he first shows up in Quite a while regarding Alexander. The Persian Achaemenid ruler Darius III asked Poros for help protecting himself against Alexander after his third unfortunate misfortune at Gaugamela and Arbela in 330 BCE. All things considered, Darius' men, tired of losing such countless fights, killed him and joined Alexander's powers.
In June 326 BCE, Alexander chose to leave Bactria and cross the Jhelum River into Porus' domain. A few of Porus' adversaries joined Alexander in his royal move into the mainland, however Alexander was held up at streams edge since it was the stormy season and the waterway was swollen and violent. It didn't stop him for long. Word arrived at Porus that Alexander had discovered a spot to cross; he sent his child to examine, however the child and his 2,000 men and 120 chariots were obliterated.
Porus went to meet Alexander himself, bringing 50,000 men, 3,000 calvaries, 1,000 chariots, and 130 conflict elephants against Alexander's 31,000 (yet the numbers change generally from one source to another). Rainstorm demonstrated a greater amount of a snag to the Indian bowmen (who couldn't utilize the sloppy ground to acquire buy for their longbows) than to the Macedonians who crossed the swollen Hydaspes on barges. Alexander's soldiers acquired the high ground; even the Indian elephants were said to have charged their own soldiers.
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As indicated by the Greek reports, the injured yet unbowed King Porus gave up to Alexander, who made him a satrap (fundamentally a Greek official) with authority over his own realm. Alexander kept on progressing into India, acquiring locales constrained by 15 of Porus' adversaries and 5,000 sizable urban areas and towns. He additionally established two urban areas of Greek fighters: Nikaia and Boukephala, the last-named after his pony Bucephalus, who had passed on in the fight.
Porus' soldiers assisted Alexander with pounding the Kathaioi, and Porus was given power over a large part of the space toward the east of his old realm. Alexander's development halted at the realm of Magadha, and he left the subcontinent, leaving Porus as the top of the satrapy in Punjab as far east as the Beas and Sutlej streams.
It didn't keep going long. Porus and his adversary Chandragupta drove a rebel against the leftovers of Greek principle, and Porus himself was killed somewhere in the range of 321 and 315 BCE. Chandragupta would proceed to set up the Great Mauryan Empire.
Antiquated journalists about Porus and Alexander the Great at the Hydaspes, who were, lamentably, not peers of Alexander, are Arrian (likely best, in view of the observer record of Ptolemy), Plutarch, Q. Curtius Rufus, Diodorus, and Marcus Junianus Justinus (Epitome of the Philippic History of Pompeius Trogus). Indian researchers, for example, Buddha Prakash have contemplated whether the tale of Porus' misfortune and give up might have been a more equivalent choice than the Greek sources would have us accept.
During the fight against Porus, Alexander's men experienced toxic substance on the tusks of the elephants. Military History of Ancient India says the tusks were tipped with poison-covered swords, and Adrienne Mayor recognizes the toxic substance as Russell's snake toxin, as she writes in "The Uses of Snake Venom in Antiquity."
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