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- The Truth About Alexander's Failed India Invasion
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its funny how greek historians says porus ( purushuttam ) was a strong king , where indian historians don’t even consider him important to write in our historical records .
No my dear king pouras was a very strog king. In budha sahitya describes about king pouras Aka parvetashwar.
Without help of king pouras chandergupta did not fight with magad king Dhananand.
@@ChanahsCreativeEdits You still say this after watching this video...
This is just concept
I enjoyed the ethics of that battle
@@ChanahsCreativeEdits forget about Alexander , Chandragupta defeated selecus
@@ChanahsCreativeEdits
Like Conor destroyed Khabib
says a lot about what they considered strong and we considered insignificant
Greek historians: "Alexander the Great..."
Meanwhile Indian historians be like: "Alexander... who?"
😂😂
Gen-Z Indian historians say this, the old Indian historians make Alexander the daddy
@@bikdigdaddy
Why wouldn't they? They took pride in appropriating the British style treatment of their own fellow Indians. I'm quite sure they would't had mind singing peons to the history written by the Victor.
@@bikdigdaddy Alexander the Bandar.
Elon: Jeff who
Greek historian have understood tht their great couldn't beat a chief ...
So cover up story to save their glory...
It's pretty normal coz everyone does that.... 😂😂
Waiting eagerly for the Aryan invasion debunking series , love from Tamilnadu......
Yes brother same here 😇😇
@Blueberry Muffin any proof?! just say Tamil Nadu why even considering whole South India even!
Aryan invasion theory proved as a false creation by Britisher.
If u want u can check Venkata chaganti videos or Vedas World Inc
@Blueberry Muffin Why you so mad bro? 😭 The most common notion i see infact everyone sees Tamil guys commenting everything was invented by them so many people commenting everywhere. So i thought you are also one of them.😭 If you think North Indians have superiority complex then you are terribly wrong its not true! Your right i studied sanskrit and i can find and understand several words in Malayalam but it is said the language was just sanskritised doesn't prove anything that Sanskrit came from it or anything like that. Ram ji and Krishna ji weren't they born in UP they are also Vishnu Ji's Avatars.
@Blueberry Muffin really dumbass argue !! 😂🍊 and add Buddhism , Jainism, Sikhism , Harappan Civilization all originated in South India ..
Itna gadha koi kaisa ho skta hai yarr ..
The Hindu people deserve respect and honor for a number of reasons!
Thank you for the interesting explanation!
I mean fair but you know he’s wrong right?
idk man seems real to me@@WilliamsThinkTank
@@Richie1 Well this is the most plausible explanation as the greek sources of that time even mention a greek God going to india to introduce wine in india 🤣. Seems they were facinated by india tried to invade but failed and then to save the greek honor wrote something that is not even slightly mentioned in indian sources. While their were world class universities in india at that time and a flourishing nanda empire to the East.
@@Richie1 I read greek sources and they have just created their image as if they rule the universe. But in reality Indias wealth was 10X greater than them.
These short clips are extremely good.
@@mayukhpurkayastha2649 Fantastic video on Emperor Ashoka Maurya - and why modern India seems to repeat all his worst excesses from rapacious incompetent bureaucrats to ruinous socialism & sloganeering th-cam.com/video/HvTdiKzQEKE/w-d-xo.html
i can agree.
absolutely!
This is bullsh!t. When you lose than you erase all history and everyone know that. Indian king lose the war and beg for mercy from alexender than it come to return so indian need to erase the history. If indian win than they should take over some territory why none happen. Nowadays indian try to boost so bad.. Pity.
Why the intellectuals of India and main stream of India are not taking note of you.You are a gem Sir.Your explanations about Chingis Khan not invading India and about this Alexander the pity are most logical ,scientific and true .God bless you .Let the almighty get you the name and fame you deserve .Salute to you bottom of my heart.
Because he doesn't have degrees...sad thing
Bcoz we Indians have history of fighting against each other 😂
Because some so called historians are 50 year JNU students. 😂
@@SagarSagar-ro3fj elon musk doesn't have a degree for rocket engineering but the ones having it are working under him.
@@mindhunter91 but he's not from India. In India you need a degree
Greeks : we fought a great king he is tall dangerous blah blah blah
Indian kings : yeah we put a gaurd post there to watch locust attack on fields
Indian kings called porus : did something happen
Porus to indian kings :nothing sir I fought a bunch of people thats have ur meal sir
Mean while in Takshsila
Scholars : what are those sounds
Gaurds : porus is playing with swords with some white bandits dont worry sir write ur books
This would have happened . even gaurds didnt considered that as battle thats they didnt mention it in history 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Tobey Maguire 🤣🤣🤣 nice one
@@nirahua2367 nice observation brrah
@Tobey Maguire
And kills Alexander and Greeks
Best comment bro
I haven't laugh this much
😁😂😁 Indian history manipulate by Foreigners Islamist seculars. We are so much strong don't give hype that's why some western countries are jealous to us
Alexander: comes to invade India
Random villager of the time: chai toh peeke jaayiye mahoday
Hello friens chai pi looo
This makes so much more sense.. Interestingly Military strategists give history such a realistic interpretation!
There is a summary from Georgy Zhukov, field marshall of Soviet forces where he says empirical evidence suggests Alexander lost the war against Puru.
A note on historiography: I am a 73 y.o. Born and raised in US. Loved history but schooling in several states (Arkansas, Florida etc) had poor attention to history, esp “World” history vs “American” (US) history. My memory as to the treatment of Alexander’s campaigns into (I presume) the Indus Valley is that his success was very mixed. In sum his victories such as they were were regarded as costly, almost Phyrric, his troops were faced with the possibility of him dying and leaving them stranded in this far off land, his wounds were very severe, and yes, the veterans were tired and wanted to go back to at least Babylon and enjoy the fruits of their ill-gotten gains, as recounted in a number of famous scenes. Such narratives underlined an admonition that even Alexander could overreach and that he was lucky to get out of India alive. I think that 18-19 Cent Philo Hellenism may have been a bit stronger in Britain and Germany than in U S.
It wasn't Indus valley tho(if you want to believe Aryan invasion theory).
India was already a proper civilization at that time.
Indus Valley had already vanished at the time of Alexander
@@rajendergodara7398 i think he referred to the region not the civ
Alexander died in Babylon in 323 B.C. One theory is he had Guillain-Barre syndrome, which produced high fever and paralysis.
@@karencontestabile6064 This is a new one for me and very interesting. There is so maddeningly little evidence, except that it doesn't seem that the cause was clear to his doctors. Have you seen the informed speculation that FDR's paralysis may have been Guillain-Barre rather than polio? Fit the
symptoms better. Every year a panel of doctors (from Johns Hopkins?) selects a "what did they die from" of a famous person. I think Alexander was one of them. Also for PresidentsTaylor and William Henry Harrison typhoid likely from contamination of White House water supply. Some possibility of Tad Lincoln also.
If Alexander had won the Battle of Jhelum (hydaspes) and come farther east....we would never have known he existed.!
Because in here bordering the Punjab was the formidable Nanda Empire with its mammoth size war machine of an army....not a single Greek would have returned alive to write his story 😁
@@bubundada7094 everyone clearly knows that irrespective of defeat or victory... Alexander never moved further east !!
Bear in mind, Alexander defeated such a large army of the Persians.
@@Murlileo Persians were no match for either him or the Indians. The only thing that kept Persia undefeated was the unwillingness of Indians to invade other territories.
@@srajanverma9064 yeah no alexander was terrified after he heard about the nandas, ptolemy and diodorus etc. said that if alexander had his whole army's might, that is all that he had conquered up to today, he would still be an ant in comparison to the nandas who would demolish the army of the greatest emperor alive
This is bullsh!t. When you lose than you erase all history and everyone know that. Indian king lose the war and beg for mercy from alexender than it come to return so indian need to erase the history. If indian win than they should take over some territory why none happen. Nowadays indian try to boost so bad.. Pity.
According to various sources, Puru / Porus was a small king at Punjab border. He was 7 feet tall. He had 40 war elephants, and 10000 soldiers. In that battle, Alexander was injured badly and his army retreated. Meanwhile the Greeks were told by spies that, beyond Puru's kingdom, there is Nanda kingdom that has 2000 war elephants, and 300,000 army. ( It's king Dhana nanda insulted chanakya, thus creating Chandragupta Mourya ). Going further into India ( UP, Bihar), there is Ganga kingdom, with even bigger army. Hearing this, the Greeks felt like going back to home.
Yeah this was true.
I’d love to see any of this various sources you claim.
Alexander wasn’t wounded at Hydaspes, and he did defeat Porus. He continued campaigning in India for several months, conquering the Malli people to the south.
@@MorallyDubiousFrog Hahahaha troll
@@Pillowlips77 You can look it up. Everything I said is true.
@@MorallyDubiousFrog I did and found nothing 😂
And, yes, I very much enjoy your clips and the dimension your perspective adds.
Keep in mind the Greeks also made up a story and believed that Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, came to India and introduced wine to the Indians. So they already have a proven track record of bullshitting events relating to India.
(Not hating on Greeks, their history is fascinating, but they definitely had a tendency to make stuff up regarding other countries, India included).
Yes, If we were tasked to keep a book of our history, maybe we will do the same thing considering if we lived in ancient times…
@2 Nep8id6 I’m not in the business of dissing an entire group of people. I’d prefer Indians to have as a much pride as the Greeks in their history. Both countries have extremely old and great history in a lot of ways.
@@fuferito the story I know involves Dynoysus travelling from Greece to India in an effort to conquer the land. Thought with Greek mythology there are so many differing and sometimes conflicting stories that both versions are probably right and just from different parts and eras of Greece
@@fuferito where are you from
Even Greek Historian wrote that black africans have black colored semen.
Alexander was defeated, and, was badly injured. His army was tired, his general took him away from battlefield back to home. And, in mid-way Alexander died.
That's all......
Source : trust me bro
@@bait5257 so can you tell me the truth. With the actual archeological evidence
@@ankurkundu2530 that's the problem. There is no real evidence.
We can only make assumptions.
The best assumption is this :
Alexander did come to Indian then he found out about the big kingdom with elephants in their army.
He was far away from home and didn't want to fight a war with high chance of heavy casualties. So he went back without fighting. There was no fight so there's no record in Indian history, and at that time they didn't know about Alexander's status so they didn't bother writing about his arrival.
But the Greeks are prideful, so they wrote a fake one about porus.
In short, no fight happened
@@bait5257 better to learn about modern history 😅
@@ankurkundu2530 yeah. Who tf cares if he lost or not
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If Alexander had won, he would have killed Porus right away in the battle, while Indian kings have a long history to give 'Jeevandan' to the enemy who had lost. So, It's very obvious that Alexander had lost that battle.
If Porus had really lost the battle, he would have been most probably died protecting his kingdom (due to the values at that period of time).
Also, Alexander's horse died during this battle. So, there are very thin chances that he still won the battle without his horse.
Alexander's horse did not died in hydaspes battle. The horse busephalaus died when Alexander was returning to his homeland.
@@stelvis1984ify get lost tge fact is that he conquered Persia but he didn't conquer india the the land of kshatriya.
Punjab was not conquered and even if he won punjab he could not go beyond punjab because ahead lied another powerful dynasty called nanda empire which had a huge army. So alexander could not have won india whatsoever.
He might be the winner of afganistan, persia Europe but not india where the sanatan dharma is still there and no culture got vanished because of any invasion as Indians fought relentlessly.
The Christians came but could not make india a Christian country them Islamic invaders came and invaded india for 1000 years but could islamize india whereas countries lying between arabia and sindh got converted within 100 years but next stands hindustan which remained strong for thousands of years. No power could destroy our culture and our dharma.
Alexander horse died so he lost? Lol.
Except porus was captured so he couldn't fight even if he wanted to
@@lukoskulo2583 this is what white historians say. ITS quite a coincidence that after the battle alexander suddenly got letter from his mother saying she wanted to see him and his soldiers mutinied bcos they wanted to go home and so he decided to go back and died on way back. Historical facts are out now,, not utube channels that alexander and his macedonian army got its ass whipped and retreated all the way back to greece
Even the movie depicts his defeat but we have liberals/communists here.
Which movie?
@@shambhvilokre I think he is talking about the one Called Alexander starring Colin Farell and Angelina Jolie .I am not sure though, as I haven't watched it. It was a very hyped movie back when it released but was a major commercial and critical failure so I didn't bother watching it. Perhaps, I will watch it sometime soon, now that I have been reminded about it.
which movie? we have garbage bollywood that made movie on his name that to with islamic name jo jeta wahi sikander
@@pavitrprabhakar3981 oh ok thankyou
@@shambhvilokre no problem
Interestingly, a Hollywood movie on Alexander has the same story as you narrate. I think it's only the Indian historians who are still sticking to the "embellished" version.
@@rakshitsingh2503 Its Alexander (2004), I think ...
In that movie indians retreat
@@descendedofrigvedicclans2216no it was true history ok which source you have read real history.Tell me??
@@Andreas-nikolas and alexander gets fuc*ed
I had come across a documentary on this subject on youtube, where a foreign researcher mentions that Alexander killed almost all the Kings/Rulers he fought with. Porus was a 7 feet+ tall army commander of Chandragupt Maurya. So the astonishing fact he said was that Alexander had the support of a local rebel king, but he was injured during the battle + he lost a major part of his army + his favorite horse was killed, and he still pardoned Porus just like that and returned all his lands back....wtf!!! So his theory was that Alexander was injured and was no where winning the battle since this was the fist time he was battling 2 thousand elephants regiment in the forests of India, a small army which was fighting with valor. Hence a truce was called in with Porus, and in return for a safe passage, Porus was given lands. Alexanders commanders also knew that Chandragupta was waiting for them with an Army of 1lakh soldiers and ten thousands elephants across the Ganga.....hence they convinced Alexander that this was the only way out.....
I guess u are talking about the nada ampire not maurya
@@viralbajpai8027 yep u r right, it was Nanda empire ... I will share the link if i come across the video on youtube..
Seems rational
I remember Alexander called the battle off early. Basically at that moment it was a stalemate. But a 30,000 to 50 000 army losing to a 6000 army with elephants then hearing about a 400,000 army waiting for you for 10x elephants. Yeah his soldiers were thinking to continue is suicide. Quit Alexander while you're ahead
Yeaa maybe
i read somewhere that alexander saw the first ever elephant in his life on the shores of india that also the one that was trained to fight in war. fatt gayi hogi uski...
@@stelvis1984ify greek historians themselves said that
It was Alexander's first time in his life seeing an elephant used in a war
@@zokam7792 first time seeing them used in war. Alexander had seen elephants years prior to this. Babylon had a stable of war elephants that he’d captured.
No he saw them first time after battle of gaugamela
Also, according to history, Alexander was buried in a grand golden coffin in a big monument, but his tomb hasnt been found till date..... Fishy isnt it? Something's wrong
Where are you from
Lol porus might have burned his corps
@@sarbeshmallick6452 will kill him or what 🤣
@@sarbeshmallick6452 first of all answer his question
@@fftydgh7769 thats bs bro there really qasnt any whacking, but the events suggest otherwise
When I hear this words " Alexander was so impressed by porus bravery that he made porus remain as king and gave all lands back to porus " is the most funniest story I have heard . This looks as if some 9 year old wrote a fantasy poem😂😂
Name a king who surrendered to Alexander and didn’t get to keep their lands.
@@MorallyDubiousFrog Name a king who surrendered to porus and never got out alive
@@akshatkindle3089 Name any king who fought Porus besides Alexander.
@@MorallyDubiousFrog Sambhi of taxila and many subsidiaries but porus was unable to expand his territory to further indian subcontinent because it was rule of magadha and he had good relationship with them. Also magadha was way bigger territory than purushottams reign.
@@akshatkindle3089 Name any battle where Sambhi lost or was in a position to be killed by Porus.
If Alexander is able to defeat the King Porus even though he owns elephant cavalry, eventually make the then Greeks to think that elephants can be defeated...... so why then Seleucus 1 Nicator uses these elephant cavalry (gifted to him ) in the battle front line against the enemies in the Battle of Ipsus. Of course they know the destruction power of elephants.....
Alexander - I'm a vishwavijeta
Indian then - ha haa hoga tu apne ghr ka
Lmao. How ironic is your comment
@@bait5257 it were murayans yadav chalukyas who made India prosperous and Aryavart was at its glorious days it's pitty that the later successors couldn't protect the nation from barbaric invaders !! It's not that the indigenously leaders didn't arrived but up to that time huge loss was done! Unlike Europe who didn't allowed barbaric invaders to enter the land and thus protected their culture
@@user-nj6vp1hg5r I am not talking about that lol.
The comment is ironic because it mocks Alexander by saying he is only strong in his home field.
Yet India never conquered any land like Alexander did.
And more importantly
Just because Alexander may have lost because of geographical advantages of Indian kings and because elephants, it still doesn't take his title as the greatest
@@bait5257 he was great because he was a mf.
@Aka Aka he conquered what outside India? Lmao stop crying
Sounds very plausible, I always found it strange Alexander turned back at that stage. The Elephants would have complicated Alexanders strategy .
Genghis Khan spent a life-time uniting the nomads of the Gobi Desert. Perhaps he could have spent a life-time uniting India, if that was his geography instead. My point is that as great a conqueror as Genghis Khan was, when he was confronted with the people of India, he knew that even though this was a fight he could potentially win, these were not people that he wanted to have war with. Something i think Abhijit points out correctly, is that Genghis Khan was actually very principled, and systematic about how he conducted war. For example, the Islamic Kingdom in what is now largely Afghanistan and Pakistan, which he eventually destroyed, he sent trade and diplomatic envoys to them not once, but twice, and they were not only treated disgracefully, but the second group of envoys were murdered. I do not know what other decision Genghis Khan could have made at that point and still retain his honor in the eyes of his peers. He had to act militarily. If you say that what he did was overkill, that is for history to judge, but the way i see it, Genghis Khan was a man who valued the lives of seemingly low diplomats in his service. He did not think their lives were any less important than his own, and took frigging bloody vengeance for them! I wish i had a sovereign that believed in me that well! :)
@Tobey Maguire india was worlds richest country then and he did not think it matters? Are you stupid or what?
If Gengiz khan was just a marauder, he could not have left the opportunity to attack india for its riches.
If Gengiz was very civilized, he would have avoided attacking india. Wait. That is what he did.
@Tobey Maguire Gengiz know through their own history that india had trade relations with other counties and never in its history harmed diplomats. It was too uncivilized for them and later this civilized nature proved to be their undoing.
Gengiz comes from Natural religions who take violence only when needed unlike Abrahmics who has blank check to massacre people if they are not of their faith. Eg : Portuguese inquisition in Goa.
@Tobey Maguire Genghis Khan was way ahead of time, he knew these areas would cause future menace in the 21st century, and hence tried to have a tiff with them
@@vamsikrishna3855 two Abrahamic cult destroyed culture, religions,art, science free thinking that is Islam And Christianity
@@defencenpolitics2719 wow. And youtube allows comment like these and deletes other
Wow I never think about this perspective of history 🤔
Either the Greeks learnt sanskrit to interact with Porus or they hired an interpreter .
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Sanskrit is an indo-european language along side greek
Even if both are a bit more distant with other branches
Both are also label as being around the same age
With sanskrit being a little bit more older than greek
@@heroeus8173 what do you mean sanskrit indo european languages?
Sanskrit is an indian language not indo european
@@indiandictator4537 different branch but it's part of the indo-european language family
Greek is from the hellenic branch
Sanskrit is from the indic or indo-iranic branch
Latin is from the italic branch
Russian is from the slavic branch
German is from the germanic branch
Etc
@@indiandictator4537 Sanskrit is an Indo-European language
There is no "Indian language family", Indo-European languages consist of most of European languages and North Indian Languages
I might have missed out on some videos or some points.
But have heard Sir talk about Mughals burning Takshashila which took 1 month to burn completely.
Is it possible that in that event we lost track of the books that have might have recorded Porus and Alex's Invasion accurately ????
yeah was thinking the same
What kind of drug are you high on
Huns/hunas destroyed taxila
@@shahhh418 not completely though
@@THEkarankaira yeaa same here
Not takshila its nalanda.
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[The Greek sources repeatedly mention that Indians, Egyptians and Ethiopians were related, and that Indians travelled to Egypt bringing knowledge to the land. Indeed, similarities between Ancient Indian and Egyptian sciences and philosophies can't be ignored. But surprisingly, there's just one insignificant mention of Egypt in Indian sources (in Ashokan edicts).]
Question: Is there any other mention of Egypt in Indian records? What did the Ancient Indians call Egypt?
Indus valley civilisation is the contemporary period when big pyramids were being built, both advanced civilisations, definitely there was land or sea route trade
In ancient India, Egypt was called "MISR" (pronounced 'missre')
Our half of the history is burned by Khilji. When he burned Nalanda University. Maybe Theyr mentioned. But it's not their anymore.
I heard some South Indian King migrated with people to Egypt and establish a kingdom there.
Also Sun is an important figure in Egypt and South Indian kings were Suryavanshis i.e of Solar Lineage.
In ancient India Egypt called as missra
The Greeks, although brave & strong had the habit of making up the things. The example of this can be seen in the movie 300, where Leonidas specifically selects that Spartan soldier who was well-versed in reciting the events & one the spy historians even believes that he might have exaggerated the events of the war.
So can't rule out the possibility that the historians who would've been loyal to their patron might've altered Alexander's defeat as a victory.
An important thing is since most of the Alexander's army was made up of local rebel soldiers & mercenaries many of whom would not go back to Macedonia & speak of what had happened the Historians had all the scope to manipulate the things.
‘After suffering defeat, Alexander left back to go to Macedonia and elsewhere, leaving Seleucus in-charge of the territories they had conquered, so as not to fritter away the gains. Unable to mount another attack, or be attacked by the Mauryas, to live out his remaining days in peace, Selucus sought an alliance, by marrying his daughter to the Mauryan emperor.’ And he lived happily ever after. The end.
Other kings to Alexander : he is ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Indian kings to Alexander : Chala ja bsdk 😂
Punjabi Porus probably said Chal teri pehn di !
@@hardeepsingh-sg2kz he be like- chal teri pen di fuddi🤣🤣
@@hardeepsingh-sg2kz haryanvi hua porus us hisab se tow
@@hardeepsingh-sg2kz na Punjabi na haryanvi tha us samy ye dono language nhi boli jati thi us samay (North pakistan , haryana) me shaurseni- prakrit boli jati thi joki sanskrit ka ek corrupted version tha
@@hardeepsingh-sg2kzPunjabi porus? Lmao
Sir please try to take my question about mahaavatar babaji. According to stories he is alive since 2500 years in himalyas. I will be highly obliged to you if you will take this question.
I hope so. I heard in one of his stream that if you have any question you can mention in comments. If you have any queation mention in comments. Hopefully he will take the queation.
Yes.
@@Faith_Op Read the book - Autobiography of a Yogi
@@Faith_Op I've already read that, graduated, working as a professional, still not understood a lot things about evolution and our existence. If you, sir, can guide me about who you really are, what's your purpose here on this planet, do let me know....otherwise shut the fuck up and go finish your homework kid.
@@Faith_Op rgt
Your channel is a gem, sir! Thank you for spreading your knowledge for us!
Makes a lot of sense.
Ah yes, looking at history afresh is ALWAYS necessary. The main narratives are always partly not true. Everyone loves writing history to make themselves look grander.
Alakshendra was name given to him by Indians which forms from words
Alakshya = aimless
Indra = vedic deity ( used for warlords.)
Alakshendra=aimless warlord or amateur warlord
Sikander name was given to Alexander..
Skanda (Lord Kartikeya) was the warlord from which sikander name was given to him
@@ShubhamKumar-nl2ii sikander is a later corruption of the word, and also has nothing to do with skanda
@@pinkyfinger9851 You realize he wasn't the only greek with that name right...
@@ShubhamKumar-nl2ii sikander word is corruption of alexander word in later islamic documents
@@ShubhamKumar-nl2ii lmao, wrong.
I'm loving some of your historical perspectives. They actually make sense and show a perspective I've never heard or even whispered about.
Hope indian historian bring this up and our books are updated 👍
Thanks for sharing this vital piece of information sir 👍
We love listening about physics and history by you 🙏👍👍👍
@Tobey Maguire rightly said but with time sometime it's good to become irrelevant,
like now feature phone are !
Hope every generation embrace change 🙏
@Tobey Maguire why truth should not be told ?
@Tobey Maguire that is the point truth
I am not saying his(Abhijit ) side is only concrete truth but my point is asking questions and searching for answer is ok.
Who knows we may find something new
The Greek says - Our conquering king, Alexander the Great.
The Indian says - He was only Great till he came on Indian borders, after that he had to turn back. Not so Great. Is it? 😂 😂
@@fftydgh7769 his men wanting to go home? Then why selucus with his Greek army attack chandra gupta after Alexendar ( the indian emperor not just a clan leader like porus ) but selucus got deafeated
@@fftydgh7769 Alexander fought with clan chieftain only he never poked mainland indian kings like of nanda dynasty or any other main dynasty/ Empire of Indian
@@fftydgh7769 oh if his men were tired they could have stepped a little back and rested for a while instead of fleeing back to home
@@fftydgh7769 brother if the army was so tired then couldn't they just returned before attacking india then just come back with more preparation??
@@fftydgh7769 porus was tribal warrior , who Greek historian described 7feet tall gaint porus ( it was Greek ways to say ,how hard was fight like Greek god wining over giant/ titen ) if he easily win over porus he would have more motivated/ his army too he dared to invade more ( mainland India)
When Alexander saw Elephant ROOKS for the first time. He and his vast army got scared.
Greek historians- Alexander was the greatest king of all time. Also Greek historians - Alexander went back because his soldiers said no to him 😂😂😂😂
@@stelvis1984ify plz dont talk with them it is useless
@@aryankhan3619 stfu miyan.....you might be slaves.....we are not.
@@starship3812 Alexander killed his own father brothers and he killed his friends for his small mistake he don't forgive anyone he killed Persian king and why he spare life of porus the great and retreat back and died in Babylon only Mughals and Britishers ruled India after Hindus empire
@@ManKumar-ss7mi Mughals never ruled over whole of India. Later they got conquered by the Marathas.
@@RR-pc7yv yes, Mughal ruled only north india not whole india
Well as a half Indian and half Greek this is very interesting lmao 😂
lol 🤣🤣🤣
Porus or Purushottam belongs to Gandhara Kingdom and it's a very small kingdom. Had Alexander entered India, there was great Magadha waiting for him. Alexander found Porus to be a great warrior because he never seen Magadha warriors.
Porus was a ruler Of city-state Of Sakala/Sialkot.
No he was not gandhar kingdom he was a king of katoch dynasty who was ruling on border of punjab and pakistan
I think Alexander never came to India at all. The battle either never happened or happened in a very small scale...
Edit: He probably also lost...
Yes and I am the King of the world 😂😂😂
@@riksarkar7011 ok 9 year old
@@Aakashputtur ok kid
And yet there were multiple cities founded by him across the region.
@khushal Singh Maurya Porus didn’t annex anything after the battle. Alexander founded Nicea and Alexander Bucephalia in the middle of Porus’ kingdom.
And to ur surprise (viewers) the most stunning fact is that almost 70% Bharatvarsh was under the fold of Maha Dhananand (Nand Vansh) and this so-called world conquerer was severely injured in a border conflict with a tiny regime and lost to them. Later when his army started fleeing the battlefield, he got an arrow into his lung that could not be treated by Greeks and he succummed to this injury.
I am surprised at the wisdom of these pseudo Indian historians of NCERT with no common sense.
Hello Abhijeet ! I appreciate ur effort and neutral opinion with great expertise in history. 👍
There is no Indian records of Raja Puru's great victory and also Raja Puru himself . So it still remains a mystery that who won. Also contradictions ( Porus defeated Alexander) are from Western, Greek and Soviet sources only. So can't say anything sure about this. It is only based on assumptions.
Maha Dhanananda? It's just Dhanananda, while the founder was Maha Padmananda, the illegitimate son of Mahanandin, the last ruler of shishunaga dynasty.
I wouldn't be surprised ! The Greeks and the "west" have a history of learning things from India and then not acknowledging their teachers. :)
Indians are the ones begging the West for aid and "teachings" about other countries they think they're in charge of.
@@tritium1998 who's begging west for knowledge ?
Whatever u guys study now days in maths and science was invented in Asia
U guys just like to claim everything thats not even yours thats west
@@tritium1998 when Europeans arrived in India they stole everything including knowledge that only Indians had about maths and science
But u westerns claimed them
@@tritium1998 u guys are now claiming yoga by westernising it calling it christian yoga naming yoga exercises different names in ur language instead of calling them what they are
Example : Christian yoga seriously
@@tritium1998 remember my words u guys will claim Indian medical knowledge known as Ayurveda in future
That is in ur blood to scam and steal
Greek historians themselves say couple of things like it was the most hardest battle for Alexander he lost the most in this battle he ws injured his horse died. Meanwhile porus was merely a small chieftain not even a ruler of a kingdom let alone an empire. These clues are enough to point the fingers at truth about his army trying mutiny and him going back dropping the further plans moving toward east. Such a emperor Alexander abandoning his campaign and backing off is not just because of mutiny but the fact if a chieftain did so much to them what would nanda empire would do to them. He was smart he retired at correct time he did not waited to retire with a defeat.
Well articulated. Great. The greek empire existed very long after Alexander's death, is a testament that the soilders revolt is a hogwash of the accompanying historians. Yes, he is a conquerer who met his nemesis and death in india and he was noway can be called great (why they called him so - justifying colonialism?). Rajaraja and rajendra were undefeated but not alexander
Sir please put better thumbnails you deserve good views
Once My Veterinary Parasitology teacher told me same that India's Victory of Alexander was a Lie.He told me that indian side had 300 archers who were so skilled that their arrows can penetrate whole elephant. And my another senior told me that Archer number was 3000 not 300. That time I did not believe my teacher and thought old man is just making his own assumptions. But now I practice archery on regular basis and come to know that around 1300-1400 AD Turkish army killed 20000 armoured French cavalry men with their bow only. Their bow poundage was 90-130 lb. And I also come to know that Guru Govind singh ji used to shoot 225kg(नौ टंकी, 1टंक=25Kg) kaman (bow). He arrow shot 8km and 12km on two different occasions which is well recorded in history. Was most feared Archer of his time. Now I believe my teacher that around 2223 year ago their might be those Archer who could yield such heavy bow which can penetrate whole elephant. If 300 those heavy bow Archer and 2700 of light bow Archer were at the battle. Not even demigods stand a chance against arrows of those Archer forget Alexander the no one.
A 45 poundage bow can easily penetrate a 300 kg cow.
Very insightful! The Taksh Shila argument indeed strong.
King Porus Katoch of Kangra, Himachal Pradesh ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Sir, invasion of Alexander is mentioned by himself and also mentioned in ''pathitrupathu'' literature. This was clearly tells about the battle between the king imayavaramban cheran and alexander & Aryan. But the literature didn't mentioned name of any one of the kings including alexander but the literature mentioned the Greek people's,Aryans who helped the Greeks. He defeted 65 kings in India including aryans and kadamba and alexander. The word porus in Greek called as rock or powerful human something, during that time the Greek people's called the ''imayavaramban cheran'' as porus. The alexander also mentioned about him he looks like Hercules. And he was an tallest person also he command the elephant calvary. This all are mentioned in Patiṟṟuppattu. And he mention the name of his brother called malai kethu this is Tamil name, and he told he was the ruler of mountain region. In chera dynasty malai mean mountain. And during that period there is no elephant calvary in North India.His brother was dead in the battle her name is ''malai kethu'' and he killed the Alexander's horse called Bucephalus. And there is the myth about the alexander death. Some historical archeologists tells the alexander was killed in that battle. And some people's telling the war between alexander and porus eventually become the hard and the victory was most favor to porus. And finally the alexander arrange the comparamise meeting. However there is the record about this war in ''Patiṟṟuppattu''. ''Imayavaramban cheran'' was the greatest king in the world during that period. He gifted one strongest sword to alexander that was came from chera dynasty, there is lot evidence about that. And the literature was written in the same time period this is real. After 300 years death of Alexander , Persian people's wrote about alexander that is fake. And there is no clear evidence about the death of Alexander but he was dead during that period. And after that war he never return to his home town. Some people's telling he was dead when he was returning to his country. He never ruled his empire even single day. The reason of his death is, maybe he gets bad injuries in that battle this is the only way. But there is no clear evidence when he was died. Beacause he arrested some Greek war commanders and soldiers also Aryan soldiers and gives some punishment and put them all into the labors in his port and some sectors. This all are mentioned in ''Patiṟṟuppattu''. If the war was withdrawned or alexander won the battle he never allowed to arrest his soldiers. And he enter into india, that was never happened. So he was defeated by porus alice imayavaramban cheran. The victory of imayavaramban cheran is tells about his victory against Greek in Patiṟṟuppattu. After that war he conquered the himalayas and upto Tibet. There is the mountain called vaanavaraban in Tibet is called as vaanavaraban mountain still now. His real name is ''neduncheralathan'' after the victory over himalayas he was honored and named as imayavaramban. And victory over Tibet he named as vaanavaraban. And later the indo-greek, Aryans and kadamba took the war against the cheras to took revenge against the son of imayavaramban cheran called cheran senguttuvan. He is also the greatest king in the world during that period. But ''Cheran senguttuvan'' defeted the Greek, Aryan and kadamba in the single battle (and lot of indian kings during his invades over himalayas) and he is also put them all into the labors before giving some punishment. He conquered the himalayas couple of times and makes the victory of both time.
Porus defeated alexander and baby alexander shit his pants and ran away...
Baby Alexander?😂😂He is greatest conqueror of all time in history
And don’t try to rewrite history just to glorify India
@i chew mews yeah thats why he is the 2nd greatest conqueror of the world after genghis khan
@i chew mews there is no authentic source that tell that porus defeated Alexander
But its ok if u want to live in ur imaginary world😂😂
@i chew mews yeah that source is Wikipedia
And Alexander died in 323 bc and chandragupta came to power in 322 bc... So get ur facts right.
@i chew mews so which sourch should i believe? Tell me plz
Intrestingly, आचार्य चाणक्य ने भी उनका नाम mention नही किया है,
जिन्होंने 'यवनों' को हराया,वही विश्नुगुप्त अर्थात चाणक्य है।
Could be wrong. But most nations don't record their defeats. Germany and Egypt for example
Most of our texts have been destroyed by invaders.
Nah Scythian and Hunic and Islamic invasions are mentioned, quite extensively.
Alexander was defeated in India.
His horse was killed and he fell down from his horse, with a very serious chest wound.
Please watch the movie Alexander by Oliver Stone to confirm this.
We also heard this story where Alexander was utterly impressed by Porus' attitude "I am a king so treat me like a king" and left with his soldiers. How lame is that!
Alexander didn’t leave. He is gated Porus as Satrap of the region and continued campaigning for several months in India.
All these Indians want to deny history, and rewrite history, but none of them want to explain why a Greek was in India, but never a Indian in Greece….
@@grushenka910I mean they did have the class system. And all ancient place had slavery
@@grushenka910You mean like the numerous people massacred over religion during the partition of India.
Indians were in pompeii a murti of lakshmi was found there
Wowwww
He is a very very learned man.
He is just amazing.
I wish I can even learn even 20% of knowledge that he has.
Bhai bahut Saari books padhni padegi 😅
Your deduction is very correct. Alexander got a hard slap by getting seriously injured and had to run back. His trained horse got killed in the battle with King PURU called Porus. Porus threw back Alexander who was a Greek. So they reversed the truth and history. India is the only country where he got good beating.
Taxshila was burned to ashes, not by Alexander, but at least 500 years after him. There must have been records in Taxshilla, for sure.
Who burnt Takshashila?
@@plover8083 Huns
Also there are no records in history that Alexander showed any mercy to the people vanquished by him. It looks strange that he wins the battle but gives away the kingdom without getting any thing in return !!
He did show mercy to Jerusalem. That's documented
@@petrospetromixos6962 was that directed at me or Sonti?
Excellent!!😃🤍👏👏👏
No this is NOT the TRUTH about Alexander’s attack on India, it is YOUR OPINION, which you are quite entitled to BUT PLEASE don’t try and present it as THE TRUTH!
The Greeks are known to dramatise their losses. Just like they make victories more glamorous. If Alexander would have lost, it would be known.
Twisting an end result would have been undignified. Besides, tens of thousands returned to Greece. And there were also Persians in the Greek army. Impossible to hide a loss.
Hello Sir, I have a question reading Maharaja Porus. Many historians mention him to be from Paurava clan, but in Chanakya serial, Maharaja Puru is shown mentioned as "Kaikeyi Raj" why? After deep-digging into many articles and blogs, I was confused whether King Porus is a Shooraseni, a Pauravanshi, or a Katoch king. Please clarify that sir. And that there were too "Puru's" which i presume one is Porus - Purushottam and another one is Parvateshwara who joined hands with Chanakya, and later poisoned by a vishkanya ("according to Mudraraksasa"). Also, Porus tv show which telecasted in 2018 showed King Porus as "Dasyu" which i don't think could be true that his parents abadoned him and he came back to take the throne eventually. Lastly, Porus is deafeated by Alexander The Great. But, many people claim that Alexander was defeated by Porus's army and he was set-free by Porus.
Thank You. @Abhijit Chavda
If it's greek narration, no indian narration is there, then why r we reading it in school textbooks
Alexander III of Macedon defeated Porus at the Battle of the Hydaspes and that's a historical fact...
Fantastic. Great service to the world Abhijit ji
I had read "Jvalamukhi ke phool" by sushil kumar, it is a novel fictitious retelling of Samrat Chandragupta and his Guru Chanakya. Though the author has consulted historic sources for research of his novel.
In the novel, it was mentioned that Alexander was injured by the Gada or mace attack of a Malaw yoddha.
Is the story of Alexander, getting malaria and his subsequent death due to it, is all *to enlarge his image that no human could kill him, it was a little mosquito,* almost like Achilles getting killed by a small arrow of Prince Paris???
I would say one thing, even if porus was extremely small king, indian historians should've documented that he defeated Alexander if he did, because believe it or not, overall Alexander was one the greatest if not the greatest king of all time, and defeating him should've been one of the greatest achievements a person could have.
@@descendedofrigvedicclans2216 he didn't died literally after the fight. He died after 3 years
@@rowlattgamer3355 yes of that 3 yrs, 1 yr was spend fighting the border tribes of India. Which makes u wonder, was the soldiers really tired or they were afraid or not able to penetrate. I mean even the abbasid Caliphate was not able to penetrate even with all its soldiers from east to west
I think to indians he was just not important in any way...India already had so many great Kings...Great philosophy
Maybe they lost the Indians and was to ashaimed to mention it in history as Alexander was a great king at the time
It's an old storytelling device, probably invented by the Greeks.
They use it in WWE all the time. And in movies. And in cowboy movies.
You build up the antagonist. You make the antagonist big and bad, So when the "hero" defeats the big and bad antagonist, it makes him more "heroic".
An old storytelling device.
That's what my sister in law told she is a Punjabi and tells the verbal history that Alexander never could cross jhelam and defeated by Porus at the very point but he released him and not killed him..that surprised me but common sense is also indicating to that
And yet the best evidence on the issue says otherwise. The battle is well documented and studied to this day by military acedemies of nations the world over, (most likely India's as well). But for some what the truth likely is simply doesn't matter. One topic I'd like to know more about is what India's dominant polytheism was like before being subjected to Islamic occupation for such a long time. Somehow I think we'd all be rather enlightened if we could see how things were before and after.
@@George_D777 I don't understand your agenda. There was no mughal occupation there were continuous attacks from turks and Mongol and northern part till delhi and UP was under islam sultanate, Rajasthan fought with them till British came, Maratha fought, North east defeated them more than 10 times South India was the most unaffected part in invasions...it is not that they occupied whole India .
Before and after islam invasions people practiced and are practicing different sects not just polytheism but , atheism also and in between everything else in which Islam is one sect
@@dj-ux1jr No agenda, friend, just posed a question that has interested me about India for some time, i.e. what India was like before the Mughals and earlier/later Islamic conquests. What effect did the Mughal Empire and other various Islamic forays into India have on the spirituality of the indigenous Indians they conquered? Your other reply treats the question rather cavalierly for the time in question. It's a fine, pragmatic answer for modern times, I'd agree. But for 13th to 17th century India? I'd have to say there's much that's been lost to history. Deliberately so or otherwise. Put simply: the indigenous Indians the Mughals & their fellow conquerors imposed themselves on, likely suffered a spiritual & cultural poverty the likes of which they'd never previously endured. Indigenous polytheistic India was one of the highest civilizations in the world. Even when the Mughals had imposed Sharia law they failed to convert the majority of the Indian population under it. Left alone, who knows what amazing destiny India would've made for themselves and what effect it may have had on the world.
@@George_D777 The Mughals basically destroyed the country. Before the Mughals era it was much better and many things unique about Indian history during that time was gone forever.
Best guess for me in Alexanders retreat would be that his soldiers had enough fighting for years now and they feared facing bigger armies with war trained elephants. So yeah he basically chickened out. The battle between porus and Alexander was won marginally by Alexander just because he had more experience waging a war all thru these years.
You should read what greeks saw in India. And the story they write about Indian Griffins.😂
What story bro?
@@saurabhbhadoria3299 apparently we had griffins that guarded the gold.
@@gravewalker34 oh😁
@@KMS_BISMARK jiska sar pakshi ka ho aur shareer sher ka, aisa kuch hai
@@gravewalker34 😂😂😂😂
Remembered watching this part in the Chandragupta Maurya Serial where it was shown how Chanakya planned the assassination of Alexander. It was amazing watching that twist in the story.
I was looking for a proper history channel for quite some time but was unable to find what I was looking for. And then one day yt suggested me abhijit sir’s channel and i think that it was a great step that i clicked on that video and now i watch most of his videos and his ‘unbiased’ information. Thanks a lot sir.
Sir I think there were mentions in indian texts. Alexander was often referred as "Sikandar" in india. And the kings on later stages adopted that Sikandar name as title, for example alauddin khilji was named "Sikandar e Sani" . I think there were people who knew about Alexander in india at that time.
@mn op do indian scholars knew about porus before Greeks?
@mn op did you read the paragraph comment?
No it's myth
@@immortal__-__2994Alexander III of Macedon defeated Porus at the Battle of the Hydaspes and that's a historical fact...
@@History_Teller1250it's not noone actually knows what happen it's not fact it's just historian's who wrote it's more likely Alexandre was defeated
great video iwant to know about 2 warriors and i hope i get some informention on them.
1. SAMRAT VIKRAMADITYA - sihasan bsttisi, vikram vaital and even vikram samvat are related to him but we dont find any evidence of him in history its said that he was from ujjain and conquered all of the asia and north africa. Few arab texts, turkish texts have mentioned him.
2. LALITADITYA - King from kashmir who conwered all of asia when islam was spreading rapidly.
Wo log ancient world se the Jo ab gayab ho chuki hai present day India se nhi
Alexander’s invasion of India wasn’t small but his army mutinied he wasn’t defeated by porus he was the greatest general Alive at that time had he lost Alexander wouldn’t have marched his army through gebrosia he said it was punishment for making him return home also he died of alcohol poisoning you can say it wasn’t a big deal but to say he lost would be a lie to cope about his invasion
@khushal Singh Maurya porus didn’t beat alaxander he was outnumbered 2 to 1 and he gave tribute and minted coins in alaxanders name
@khushal Singh Maurya why would porus mint coins for alaxander and pay tribute if he won also why did porus army disappear after the battle if he won and how did alaxander conquer the indus of his army was destroyed and how did he reach and Ganges if his army was destroyed
@khushal Singh Maurya how did Greeks mint coins in India if they lost
@khushal Singh Maurya there are no sources saying he lost the battle there’s no information besides bullshit Indian nationalist make up or alaxanders army leaving India worse then they came in
“Alexander the Greek, not Alexander the Great”
-Rajiv Malhotra
porus kicked alexander gae ass, silly european too cocky to accept the fact.
Porus lost.
Alexander III of Macedon defeated Porus at the Battle of the Hydaspes and that's a historical fact...
What about the mighty Magadha army many times bigger than Porus and Alexander armies combined with numerous war elephants, awaiting for Alexander in case he came further? Didn't the western historians write about that?
So lets follow our sources we dont have to go with Greeks or others we dont bother... Our is the only and authentic source..
Hail India great India... So Alexander is no great!!! So Alexander lost in war in India border and left away back and died on the way back to... Greeks made a big fake story of Alexander winning on Indian king Porus Purushottam..
Alexandria Boukephala and Alexandria Nikaia were two cities founded by Alexander the Great during his invasion of the Indian subcontinent. Two of many cities founded by the Macedonian king, the cities were founded on either side of the Hydaspes (Jhelum River), east of the Indus River. Boukephala was founded in memory of Alexander's beloved horse Bucephalus who had died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, while Nikaia was founded in celebration of that victory.
#AskAbhijitSir but it is said that Alexander the Great was called by the name Sikandar in India , is this a misconception sir??
Iskandar. Iskandar is Alexander in Arabic
Myth
The record might have been destroyed
Possible
If Alexander lost, wouldn't Porus be remembered by the Indians. Om the other hand if Porus lost, then he is easy to forget
At that time ...we were very civilized...we had elephants ...better bows and swords....so it's not that surprising that Alexander lost.... 🍻
Name a single historical account or source that says Alexander lost.
What about the reference to Alexander in the Chanakya stories where we see him trying to unite Indian kings against Alexander ?
Could have made up........
Because as far as Chanakya's life story goes, he assisted Chandragupta Maurya in defeating Seleucus but Mostly there was no mention of Alexander by Old Indian Historians
Yes, I've also read it.
Fake stories , made up by British and left communist historians to encourage our inferiority complex.
@@vigneshmarivada2422 Chanakya was a historical figure not a fake character.
Rajput Kshatriya Shri Poras Katoch ji defeated the gruesome army of Alexander...........
The evil alexander who killed everyone in his way, and having huge army, why would he spare Poras Katoch and his kingdom?
When did he become so kind.....
poras ko katoch rajput bana diya🤣🤣
whos next?
gautam buddha aur mahavir jain bhi rajput?
@@ritikchhokar Gautam budha was a Rajput king, his name was Siddhartha.
Tu bta de bhai Gautam budh aur poras ke bare me? Hum bhi sune kitne bda itihaskar h tu.
@@bbsingh7554 haha what delusions! sab rajput hai😂🙏🏻kisi ko to baksh do bhai, gautam buddha ko rajput bana diya, mihir bhoj ko rajput bana diya, porus ko rajput bana diya, suheldev ko rajput bana diya, punja bhil ko rajput bana diya, kisi ko to baksh do tum log
how come gautam buddha become a rajput when he was from shakya tribe?
@@ritikchhokar Suheldev ji ke bare me janne ke liye gazetiar padh lo, aur punja bhil solanki the
*GAUTAM BUDHHA KE UPAR RESEARCH PAPER-*
*shakya kingdom of India- Dr. Charles W Lefroy* padh lo bhai. Unki caste pata chal jayegi
If onlly Greeks say Alexander defeeted Porus, we could think they lie, but the whole world say the same, except Indians nationallists.
Malav tribe had stuck a spear in Alexander's chest, Malav warrior, fought till the end,❤❤❤
Jai MALAV Raaj 🚩🚩 DHAKAD 💪💪💪
Let's put actual Heros/Heroines like Porus ji or Rani Laxmi Bai ji in
name/pic/Story etc in our social media and also on our property or vehicles also
We put some overrated actors but now we can make Real Heros arrive on spotlight
Alexander III of Macedon defeated Porus at the Battle of the Hydaspes and that's a historical fact...
I have one question,
Why does most of the Islamic counties have name which has 'Stan" at the end like Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and Baluxhistan etc.
I KNOW that Word 'STAN' is not Arabic or Urdu it is From Sanskrit.
Please explain, I have ask this question to many but have not got answer
Maybe it just became popular, as a short name.
Like land of Afghanis
@@Aj-tu4gv I think there is some history to it
@@gyaniadmi2347 It is because India used to be a civilization that had influenced almost all other civilizations king Vikramaditya is said to have conquered middle east and north Africa so some of the cultures might be influenced by that plus sanskrit is also a very old language so we do not know how many languages it influenced.
Urdu does have Sanskrit-derived words, Urdu is a mix of Arabic/Persian/Hindustani words. Furthermore, you find numerous words in Indo-European languages beginning with "st", all being related and denoting something fixed, firm, stable (sic), standing (sic) etc. Also think of Hindi "stambh" for ex. In Thai, which has many Pali-derived words, sthan becomes "sathan", a "sathani" is a station (railway, bus etc.).
I'm also curious about the similarities between Alexander and Lord Karthikeya. Alexander is called Sikander, and Lord Karthikeya is also Skanda, since both wielded spears in war. Alexander defeated the Persians, whose god was Ahura (some speculate the Vedic Asuras are actually the Persians), and Lord Karthikeya defeated the Asuras. Both were great conquerors, but never settled to rule their empire. Alexander, even though he was the King of Macedonia and Babylon, was affectionately called the Prince, just as Lord Karthikeya was called Kumaran (Tamil word for Prince). I'm deeply sorry if my comparison offended anyone. But this is my genuine curiosity.
There is a beautiful Bengali play called Chandragupta written by Dwijendralal Ray. There he mentions Alexander as Sikandar Shah. The play begins after the conquest of India and Sikandar talks about the mesmerising beauty of India with Seleucus.
that is after greek historiens started brainwashing Indians and Indian songs based on him are effects of brainwashing.