Porus - Wikipedia Porus For other uses, see Porus ( disambiguation ). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2015 ) Porus King Porus ( on elephant ) attacked by Alexander the Great, on a `` victory coin '' of Alexander ( minted c. 324 -- 322 BC ) Reign before 326 -- c. 315 BC Punjab region c. 321 -- c. 315 BC Punjab region Religion Hinduism Porus ( IPA : ( porus ) ) or Poros ( from Ancient Greek : Πῶρος, Pôros ), was an Indian king from the Punjab region, whose territory spanned the region between the Hydaspes ( River of Jhelum ) and Acesines ( Chenab River ), in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. He is credited to have been a legendary warrior with exceptional skills. Porus fought against Alexander the Great in the Battle of the Hydaspes ( 326 BC ), thought to be fought at the site of modern - day Mong, Punjab, which is now part of the modern country of Pakistan. Though not recorded in any available ancient Indian source, Ancient Greek historians describe the battle and the aftermath of Alexander 's victory. After the defeat and arrest of Porus in the war, Alexander asked Porus how he would like to be treated. Porus, although defeated, being a valiant, proud king, demanded that he be treated like a king. Alexander was reportedly so impressed by his adversary that he not only reinstated him as a satrap of his own kingdom but also granted him dominion over lands to the south - east extending until the Hyphasis ( Beas ). Porus reportedly died sometime between 321 and 315 BC. Contents 1 Background 2 Battle of the Hydaspes 3 Assassination 4 In popular culture 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Background Surrender of Porus to Alexander, 1865 engraving by Alonzo Chappel Porus 's elephant cavalry as depicted in the 16th century German work, Cosmographia The only information available on Porus and his kingdom is from Greek sources. The Macedonians stated that King Porus belonged to the Pauravas. No primary source traces or validates the lineage of the Pauravas. Thus, Porus is its only recorded king, having no predecessors or successors. Due to similar nomenclatures, the Pauravas are often mistakenly ascribed as the Puru tribe or the Pandavas of the Kuru Kingdom which descended from King Pururavas. However, these entities were located in a different region and epoch entirely. The Pauravas were far removed from the Puru tribe and Kuru Kingdom which were situated in Indraprastha and Hastinapur during the Vedic period. The Achaemenid Empire occupied the western Indus basin since the conquests of Darius the Great. Neither the occupying Achaemenid nor local native sources confirmed the existence of Porus ' Kingdom at the time. Following the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, Porus and other regional powers contested for the land left behind. The historian, Ishwari Prasad, noted that Porus might have been a Yaduvanshi Shurasena. He argued that Porus ' vanguard soldiers carried a banner of Herakles whom Megasthenes -- who travelled to India after Porus had been supplanted by Chandragupta -- explicitly identified with the Shurasenas of Mathura. This Herakles of Megasthenes and Arrian has been identified by some scholars as Krishna and by others as his elder brother Baladeva, who were both the ancestors and patron deities of Shoorsainis. Iswhari Prashad and others, following his lead, found further support of this conclusion in the fact that a section of Shurasenas were supposed to have migrated westwards to Punjab and modern Afghanistan from Mathura and Dvārakā, after Krishna walked to heaven and had established new kingdoms there. Battle of the Hydaspes Main article : Battle of the Hydaspes The Battle of the Hydaspes was fought in 326 BC by Alexander the Great against King Porus, on the banks of the river Hydaspes. The battle resulted in a Macedonian victory. Alexander was greatly impressed by his adversary and not only reinstated him as a satrap of his own kingdom but also granted him dominion over lands to the south - east extending until the Hyphasis ( Beas ). Assassination After Alexander 's death in 323 BC, Porus was assassinated by one of Alexander 's generals, Eudemus. In popular culture Porus is played by Arun Bali in the 1991 Chanakya ( TV series ) Porus appears in the 1999 animated series Reign : The Conqueror Porus is portrayed by the Thai actor, Bin Bunluerit, in Alexander ( 2004 ) Porus appears in the 2011 Chandragupta Maurya ( TV series ) Sony TV launched Siddharth Kumar Tewary 's serial titled Porus on the Battle of Hydaspes in Nov 2017, in which Porus is portrayed by Laksh Lalwani. See also Hinduism Ancient India List of Indian monarchs Indian elephant South Asia References Jump up ^ See Keyne Cheshire, Alexander the Great ( Cambridge University Press, 2009 ), p. 139 : `` Alexander charges Porus, who hurls a javelin from atop his elephant '' ^ Jump up to : Fuller, pg 198 `` While the battle raged, Craterus forced his way over the Haranpur ford. When he saw that Alexander was winning a brilliant victory he pressed on and, as his men were fresh, took over the pursuit. '' ^ Jump up to : p. xl, Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Warfare, J, Woronoff & I. Spence ^ Jump up to : Arrian Anabasis of Alexander, V. 29.2 ^ Jump up to : `` Porus '', Encyclopædia Britannica, retrieved 8 September 2015 Jump up ^ https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-worldhistory/chapter/the-persian-empire Jump up ^ Proceedings, pp 72, Indian History Congress, Published 1957 Jump up ^ According to Arrian, Diodorus, and Strabo, Megasthenes described an Indian tribe called Sourasenoi, who especially worshipped Herakles in their land, and this land had two cities, Methora and Kleisobora, and a navigable river, the Jobares. As was common in the ancient period, the Greeks sometimes described foreign gods in terms of their own divinities, and there is a little doubt that the Sourasenoi refers to the Shurasenas, a branch of the Yadu dynasty to which Krishna belonged ; Herakles to Krishna, or Hari - Krishna : Mehtora to Mathura, where Krishna was born ; Kleisobora to Krishnapura, meaning `` the city of Krishna '' ; and the Jobares to the Yamuna, the famous river in the Krishna story. Quintus Curtius also mentions that when Alexander the Great confronted Porus, Porus 's soldiers were carrying an image of Herakles in their vanguard. Krishna : a sourcebook, pp 5, Edwin Francis Bryant, Oxford University Press US, 2007 Jump up ^ Chandragupta Maurya : a gem of Indian history, pp 76, Purushottam Lal Bhargava, Edition : 2, illustrated, Published by D.K. Printworld, 1996 Jump up ^ A Comprehensive History of India : The Mauryas & Satavahanas, pp 383, edited by K.A. Nilakanta Sastri, Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri, Bharatiya Itihas Parishad, Published by Orient Longmans, 1992, Original from the University of California Jump up ^ `` Actually, the legend reports a westward march of the Yadus ( MBh. 1.13. 49, 65 ) from Mathura, while the route from Mathura to Dvaraka southward through a desert. This part of the Krsna legend could be brought to earth by digging at Dvaraka, but also digging at Darwaz in Afghanistan, whose name means the same thing and which is the more probable destination of refugees from Mathura... '' Introduction to the study of Indian history, pp 125, DD Kosambi, Publisher : ( S.l. ) : Popular Prakashan, 1999 Jump up ^ Gazetteer of the Dera Ghazi Khan District, Lahore, `` Civil and Military Gazette '' Press, 1898, p. 52, It seems, therefore, most reasonable to conclude that the name is simply the seat of Purrus or Porus, the name of a King or family of kings... There are no authentic records of tribes seated about Peshawar before the time of Mahmud, beyond established fact of their being of Indian origin ; it not an improbable conjecture that they descended from the race of Yadu who were either expelled or voluntarily emigrated from Gujrat, 1100 years before Christ, and who afterwards found Kandhar and the hills of Cabul ( Kabul ) from whom, indeed, some would derive the Jaduns now residing in the hills of north of Yusafjai... Jump up ^ Fuller, pg 181 `` Among the many battles fought by invaders who entered the plains of India from the north - west, the first recorded in history is the battle of the Hydaspes, and in Hogarth 's opinion, when coupled with the crossing of the river, together they ' rank among the most brilliant operations in warfare '. '' Jump up ^ `` Siddharth Kumar Tewary 's next on Porus for Sony Entertainment Television ''. Times of India. Retrieved July 23, 2017. Further reading Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander, book 5. History of Porus, Patiala, Dr. Buddha Parkash. Fuller, John ( 1960 ). The Generalship of Alexander the Great. New Jersey : De Capo Press. ISBN 978 - 0 - 306 - 80371 - 0 Lendring, Jona. Alexander de Grote - De ondergang van het Perzische rijk ( Alexander the Great. The demise of the Persian empire ), Amsterdam : Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, 2004. ISBN 90 - 253 - 3144 - 0 Holt, Frank L. Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions, California : University of California Press, 2003, 217pgs. ISBN 0 - 520 - 24483 - 4 History of India : ( from the earliest times to the fall of the Mughal Empire ), Dr. Ishwari Prashad External links Media related to Porus at Wikimedia Commons Chisholm, Hugh, ed. ( 1911 ). `` King Porus ''. Encyclopædia Britannica ( 11th ed. ). Cambridge University Press. Porus at Livius, by Jona Lendering King Porus - A Legend of Old, by Michael Madhusudan Dutt. Glorifying poem, describes a legendary victory of Porus over Alexander. 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Question: who won in the war of alexander and porus
Answer: Alexander