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Untold Truths of Raja Purushothama (King Porus) vs Alexander (Sikandar)
Raja Purushottam (King Porus - Greek name), a giant 7' 2" and well built, seated on a enormously big elephant looked like Beast, marched with his army towards Alexander. Alexander was awestruck by seeing The King Purushothama who was riding a war elephant. Alexander quoted "At last I see a danger that matches with my courage. My contest now will be with the wild beasts and very strong men of uncommon mettle."
Due to the influence of Greek historians on Indian history, the history available to us is one sided i.e, the Greek historians elevated their kings, they wrote in favor of their kings and this lead to false stories regarding Indian history.
The period between 345-316 BC, was an important period in the history of the world. Alexander The Great, in a desire to rule the entire world, was ferociously coming towards East to conquer India. At that time purus were one to rule a relatively small area of land compared to other dynasties. The Ghandara, in the west of Jhelum was ruled by Ambhi. When Alexander reached Ghandara, Ambhi was waiting for him with a huge gift. The gift consisted of lot of Gold and Silver, enormous number of Oxen, Sheeps, Horsemen and Elephants. Now Alexander marched towards Jhelum, Ambhi also joined with Alexander to fight against King Purushothama. Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian mentions that the army of King Purushothama contained 50,000 Fleet, 3000 Horses, 130 Elephants, 1000 Chariots.
King Purushothama was a king of the Pauravas whose territory was located between Jhelum (Hydaspes) and Chenab (Acesines) rivers now located in Punjab. He was likely to have been descendant of the Puru tribe mentioned in Rig veda.
Alexander sent a message to Purushothama to surrender, and of course he denied it. Alexander sent out troops in different directions and he made them to shout their God's name so that Purushothama assembles his cavalry on the opposite bank to face them. The constant movement of troops and shouts and light works confused Purushothama and he thought that they are not going to cross the river in nearer time. On a day of heavy storm, Alexander crossed the river. This was a daring move by Alexander, Purushothama was not able to see the movement of troops because of darkness and heavy storm.
When Purushothama came to know the plan of Alexander, he sent a division of army under his son's leadership towards Alexander. He killed the horse of Alexander (Boukephalas) and also wounded Alexander. But eventually the attack by Purushothama's son failed as his chariot was struck in mud.
Purushothama personally took 40 elephants with him and led the attack. As Purushothama was more than 7 feet tall and his chest is double that of a normal soldier, the picture of him, seated on an enormously big elephant made, Alexander and his army awestruck. Alexander found it very difficult to continue the war. He was badly injured and he wanted to stop the war because of heavy loss of men in the war. The loss was also very high on Purushothama's side but he has no intention of stopping the war. Arrian, a Greek historian, wrote that Alexander sent Ambi and others to ask Purushothama to befriend Alexander but he strongly declined their offers and wanted to continue the war at any cost. Later Alexander sent Meroes who was a close friend of Purushothama and finally he agreed to stop the war. Alexander asked Purushothama how he should treat him, he replies "AS A KING" and Alexander asks what else he wants and he replies that he want everything inclusive of it i.e, he wants his kingdom and he should be the king of his kingdom. Alexander had no other way than to retreat back.
But the Greek historians falsely stated that Purushothama surrendered to Alexander. This can be understood from a simple question. Why did Alexander, a king who desired to rule the whole world, who, in that process wanted to conquer entire India retreats back after the battle of hydaspes? If he defeated Purushothama, why didn't he move towards rest of India and conquer it? The greek historians wanted to elevate their kings and their battles irrespective of facts. They want their kings to be heroes in history, that is the reason they wrote history in favour of them. The only source of history to Indians is Greek history, which is their own view and we are blindly following that.
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