He wanted to outdo his father Phillip, began with minor raids in the neighbourhood, claimed Persia and kept pressing on before he was made to turn his back by the Indian challenge. He did capture Persia and he did travel 3000 miles to the doors of India. The fact is that Alexander’s military exploits concern just 10 years. The truth is: there is no contemporary, authentic historical record of Alexander prevailing over Porus. Mercenaries and young men from his conquered territories also served the purpose. The tale of his “weary army” is unauthentic too: it is proven beyond doubt that he kept replenishing his army with fresh legs from home, replacing his dead and tired soldiers regularly. The Journals of Alexander is a pure forgery. Sure there is material in Plutarch’s Life of Alexander and Diodorus Siculus’ Library of History but the legend of Alexander as it has come down to us in the last few centuries is a lot of baloney for authentic historical records on the man are missing. Arrian borrowed hugely from Alexander’s contemporary Ptolemy’s account which is widely regarded as hugely unreliable. After all, his seven books on Alexander were written some 400 years after Alexander was dead and buried. The modern historians have trouble believing the account of Arrian. Bosworth, “he spent much of the time killing and directing killing, and, arguably, the killing was what he did best” Why would he leave Porus standing on his feet?Īlexander massacred the complete male population at Tyre and Gaza, razed the royal palace at Persepolis and as per a doyen historian of his, A.B. He rose to the Macedonia throne killing his father and brothers there are mentions of him killing his friends around the dinner table the entire citizenry of a country being butchered by his frenzied sword. Alexander’s generosity is beyond belief for he was an exceptionally cruel invader. We all know that neither Alexander nor Porus died in the battle.
This story of our childhood lacks credulity. He couldn’t reach home, dead in the city of Babylon (Iraq) from a raging fever though there are also different accounts of him being poisoned or succumbing to alcohol-induced issues. Alexander then turned on his heels, his hands forced by his weary army, abandoning his plan to dig deep into India’s heartland where the mighty Magadha empire, ruled by Chandragupta Maurya, would certainly have brought him to grief. We in India have grown up on the story how Porus valiantly went down to Alexander but was restored to his kingdom by the conqueror, impressed as the winner was by Porus’ bravery. The most popular version of Alexander’s story is by Arrian, a general during the reign of Roman emperor Hadrian. Alexander is about to engage Porus in the battle of Hydaspes (Jhelum), 326 BC. The makers of the show have a global audience in mind. The producers retain the IP rights of the serial, Sony is a mere first broadcaster of it. It’s a lavishly mounted production the costliest-ever at Rs 500 crores.
ALEXANDER PORUS SERIAL
On evenings these days, we have a television serial “Porus” on Sony channel.
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