Unlike his neighbour, Ambhi, King Porus chose to fight Alexander the Great in order to defend his kingdom Pauravaa and people.
King Porus fought the battle of the Hydaspes River with Alexander in 326 BC. After fierce fighting and very heavy casualties on both sides, he was defeated by Alexander in a Pyrrhic victory.
The battle with King Porus is often considered to be Alexander’s hardest fought battle, so hard that it caused his army to mutiny against him afterwards. In a famous meeting with Porus - who had suffered many arrow wounds in the battle and had lost his sons, who all chose death in battle rather than surrender. Alexander reportedly asked him, “how he should treat him”. Porus replied, “the way one king treats another”. Alexander was so impressed by the brave and powerful response of King Porus that he restored his captured Kingdom back to him and gave the captured land of a neighbouring Kingdom whose ruler had fled.
Watch the Battle in India from the Movie Alexander
Video Source: YouTube, Wikipedia
Great Vid you guys posted. Also, thanks for the brief history about the war.
If all the Indian kings were united, then our enemy Alexander wouldn’t have suceeded at all.
Chanakya tried to Unite many Indian kings but failed due to their selfish motives.
Later Chanakya has to raise a powerful army under the leadership of Chandra gupta to kick the enemy out and establish a powerful and formidable empire in the Indian sub continent that no enemy has ever dared to look towards india for the next 1000 to 1600 years.
Chandra gupta was followed by his son Bindusara then by his son Asoka.
Prior to Chandragupta Maurya’s consolidation of power, small regional kingdoms dominated Northwestern India, while the Nanda Empire dominated the Gangetic plain. After Chandragupta’s conquests, the Maurya Empire extended from Bengal and Assam in the East, to Afghanistan and Balochistan in the West, to Kashmir and Nepal in the North, and to the Deccan Plateau in the South.
Does Porus know english
I am confused?
Who was deafeated?
ALexander the great or Purshotham ?
according to the movie, it was Alexander THE GREAT, who has lost the battle…considering the fact that he was wounded and lost his favourite horse and many of his troops…
couldnt understand why this site still wrote it as a victory of Alexander…perhaps they read it from out very own text books in India !!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey guys stop falsely praising India /indians for bravery . Porus was the king of what is now Pakistan .so he should be treated as pakistani.
Thakur u idiot, Porus had a hindu name ‘Purushottam’ and this took place before Islam or ur Mohammed was even born. U make me laugh
kartick U fool , it is not about hindu /muslim ,it is about regional ethnicity. A greek will remain greek if he is a hindu/christian/muslim . Understand what regional ethnicity means and then start blabbering .Once upon a time even Afghanistan ,indonesia were also hindu but that does not mean that they are Indians ????
Thakur you Jackass, how can you say he is a Pakistani when there was no Pakistan at the time of war.And Pakistan was created based upon religion so you cannot say he is Pakistani.Ayi baat akal mein…
thakur u fool how can u say porus is a pakistani!!!!!!!!u r nuts!!!how dare u say dont falsly praise Indians..if not Indians then who should be praised? one that did not even existed during that time? Remember India is an ancient land and greatest of the greatest men were born here…the name India came into existence becoz of the Indus river which mainly flows thru present day pakistan. It is actually called Bharat. Sadly it has to see people like u who has no trace of Pride and Patriotism
FOOLISH THAKUR,,U WILL even say now that Ashoka was a Afgani as his kingdom extended till afganisthan..and even u can say Ghandhar.” kingdom mentioned in Mahabharat, kingdom of Shakuni” which is presently called as Kandahar was a Afghani..ETHINICITY/ETHINIC GROUP MEANS ORIGIN..THESE CIVILISATIONS EXISTED at that time. U R A BIG TIME FOOL IF U R JUDGING THINGS SUPERFICIALLY BASED ON EXTERNAL BORDERS..ORIGIN MEANS SOMETHING VERY DEEP. How can u judge past with the PRESENT..U CAN JUDGE PRESENT WITH PAST NOT VICE VERSA..PAST IS NOT RESULT OF PRESENT ITS VICE VERSA..SO U DONT BLABBER..I PRAY GOD TO PUT SOME SENSE INTO UR BRAINS.