Porus

                                     

King Porus

King Porus

Biography of Porus :-

 He is born in c.321-c.315 BC 

was a king of the Pauravas whose territory spanned the region between the Hydaspes and Acesines  rivers in what is now Punjab.

 Porus fought against Alexander the Great in the Battle of the Hydaspes.

 After Alexander's death in 323 BC, Porus was assassinated by one of Alexander's generals named Eudemus sometime between 321 and 315 BC.

His Background :-

The only information available on Porus is from Greek sources. 

Historians however have reasoned that based on his name and the location of his domain, Porus was likely to have been a descendant of the Puru tribe mentioned in the Rig Veda.

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.

In Hydaspes Battle :-

The Battle of the Hydaspes was fought in 326 BC by Alexander the Great against King Porus of the Paurava kingdom on the banks of the river Hydaspes. 

The battle resulted in a Macedonian victory.

Alexander was however 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).

After Alexander's death in 323 BC, Porus was assassinated by one of Alexander's generals, Eudemus, sometime between 321 and 315 BC.