 king porus (from puru, the latinisation of the greek Î á¿¶ÏÎ¿Ï - pÃ´ros, ultimately from  purushottama) was the ancient king of paurava, an ancient kingdom located between the jhelum and chenab rivers (in greek, the hydaspes and the acesines rivers) in modern-day punjab, pakistan, and later of dominions extending to the beas (in greek, the hyphasis).arrian anabasis of alexander, v.29.2 porus fought alexander the great in the battle of the hydaspes river in 326 bc (at the site of modern-day mong)nicaea (punjab) and was defeated. he then served alexander as a client king.p. xl, historical dictionary of ancient greek warfare, j, woronoff & i. spence ==dynastic background== === theories based on etymology === thumb|300px|alexander accepts the surrender of porus the rig veda mentions a vedic tribe called puru. so, there is a possibility of king porus to be a descendent of the puru tribe.  battle of the ten kings (dÄÅarÄjÃ±Ã¡) is a battle alluded to in mandala 7 of the rig veda (hymns 18, 33 and 83.4-8), the ancient indian sacred collection of vedic sanskrit hymns. it is a battle between aryans (vedic indians) (an "internecine war", as the 1911 britannica puts it, as opposed to the more frequent accounts of aryans fighting dasyus). it took place as puru tribes, allied with other tribes of punjab and guided by the royal sage vishvamitra, oppose the trtsu (bharata) king sudas in battle, but are defeated as was celebrated in a provocative hymn of sudas' poet and priest vasistha (rv 7.18). one scholar, buddha prakash, professor of history and of ancient indian history, culture and archaeology, director of the institute of indic studies (1964); in his book political and social movement in ancient punjab, states: {{quote|the purus settled between the asikni and the parusni, whence they launched their onslaught on the bharatas, and after the initial rebuff in the dasarajna war, soon regrouped and resumed their march on the yamuna and the sarasvati and subsequently merged with the bharatas, some of their off-shoots lingered on in the punj
317_BC_deaths Ancient_India Ancient_history_of_Pakistan History_of_Punjab History_of_South_Asia Indian_monarchs People_from_Jhelum Punjabi_people Satraps_of_the_Alexandrian_Empire