Why Did Alexander The Great Run Away From India?
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- Опубликовано: 8 мар 2022
- Alexander the Great, was a military genius who conquered most of the world during his time. However, western historians have distorted this information to make him appear more impressive than he was. Alexander’s last campaign - In India - is shrouded in myth. What really happened?
I don't know why we study akhbar, and other Mughal when we have such rich history. King purushottam(porus) and the mauryas were the greatest kingdoms in india of all times. NCERTs do not teach such rich and prosperous history. This should definitely be changed.
@@arpitjain5744 Yes, we do study about Ashoka in class 6th, but we only study the top cream part(1 chapter), not depth. But we study mughals and delhi sultans in depth(3 chapters).
@@AtharvVarshney do you have lessons about pandyas and cholas
In earlier times after independence our central education ministers are only muslims who preferred there kings only and published in school books but not hindu kings...so we get very small information about hindu kings
@@sunilraj1404 absolutely correct. 💯💯
@@ashwindeva7111 can't tell about NCERT, but in oure bengal syllabus, I've studied Chola, Chalukya, Pandya and Rashtrakut. Well to most students, History was boring as hell.
As per i know about history
Porus actual name was
King Purushotam from Puru clan
And yes their elephants were not less than big weapons they were trained to kill their enemies with their strong trunks which are covered by spiked shields
चंद्रवंशी महाराजा ययाति के पुत्र पुरु के वंशज पुरु,पौर,पौरववंशी वंशी क्षत्रिय कहलाते हैं,इस वंश के महाराजा मतिनार सूर्यवंशी सम्राट मान्धाता के नाना थे,महाराजा पुरु से एक शाखा कुरु वंश की चली,इनसे चन्द्रवंश की अन्य शाखाएँ भी चली,एक शाखा बाद तक पुरु या पौरव वंशी कहलाती रही...
गोत्र--भारद्वाज
प्रवर तीन--भारद्वाज,ब्रह्स्पतय,अंगिरस
वेद--यजुर्वेद
शाखा--वाजसनेयी
नदी--महेंद्र तनया(सतलुज)
वृक्ष--वट
छत्र--मणिक मुक्त स्वर्ण छत्र
ध्वजा--लाल झंडे पर चंद्रमा का चिन्ह
शस्त्र--खडग
परम्परा--विजयादशमी को खडग पूजन होता है
शाखाएँ--हरिद्वार क्षत्रिय राजपूत,कटोच राजपूत,पुरी(खत्री)
गद्दी एवं राज्य--प्रतिष्ठानपुर,पंजाब आदि
वर्तमान निवास--पाकिस्तान,पंजाब,आजमगढ़ एवं बहुत कम संख्या में बुलंदशहर,मेरठ में भी मिलते हैं,पंजाब और यूपी में कहीं कहीं मिलने वाले भारद्वाज राजपूत भी संभवत: पुरु अथवा पौरववंशी राजपूत ही हैं.
प्रसिद्ध पुरु अथवा पौरवंशी--विश्वविजेता यवन सिकन्दर को हराने वाले वीर पुरुवंशी राजा परमानन्द अथवा पुरुषोत्तम
पुरुवंश की शाखा हरिद्वार क्षत्रिय---------
गोत्र--भार्गव,प्रवर तीन--भार्गव,निलोहित,रोहित
यह पुरु वंश की उपशाखा है,पृथ्वीराज चौहान के समय इस वंश के आदि पुरुष राव हंसराम पंजाब से अपने परिवार के साथ हरिद्वार आकर बसे थे,उस समय यहाँ राजा चन्द्रपुंडीर पृथ्वीराज चौहान के सामंत के रूप में शासन कर रहे थे,इन्होने राव हंसराम को जागीर प्रदान की और हरिद्वार में पुरु वंश की शाखा का विस्तार होने लगा,बाद में इस इलाके में तुर्कों का दबाव होने के कारण पुरुवंशी क्षत्रिय यहाँ से पलायन कर पूर्वी क्षेत्र में चले गए और आजकल यूपी के आजमगढ़ के आसपास मिलते हैं,हरिद्वार से आने के कारण इन्हें हरिद्वार क्षत्रिय राजपूत वंश कहा जाने लगा.....
पाकिस्तान के पंजाब क्षेत्र में कई मुस्लिम राजपूत वंश जो खुद को चन्द्रवंशी बताते हैं उन वंशो का अस्तित्व भारत के हिन्दू चंद्रवंशी राजपूतो में नहीं मिलता है,न ही अलग से 36 वंशो की किसी भी सूची में इनका नाम मिलता है.चूंकि सिकन्दर के हमले के समय पुरुवंश का शासन पंजाब और भारत के सीमावर्ती क्षेत्र में था इसलिए हो सकता है ये पुरुवंशी क्षत्रियों के ही वंशज हों.....
Yes I studied in history books.
@@greatkaafir7478 Actually Alexander is also a brother of porus , as
Alexander is also the descendant of Yayathi
Do you know who were greeks
The name 'greeks' were applied by British
Their original name was hellenes
They believed they were descendants of king ,warrior hellene or ionos
In torah, In old testament bible they are described as descendents of Javan son of Japheth
Do you know why in india sanskrit and pali ,greeks described as Yona
Or Yavana
It is because they were Descendants of Yavana son of Yayathi
Both indians (sanskrit,modern sanskrit descendant languages Indo Aryan languages pali,magadhi prakrith,Ardhamagadhi,sinhalese, nepali,hindi,rajasthani,etc)
Indo iranian persian,scythian(saka),khotanese(wester nsaka?),etc
Anatolian hittite ,luwian,palaic
Hellenic ,greek lydian
Ancient greek
Latin rome, germmanic all are indo european religion ,language,culture,descended from same ethnic,race group
Same food habits etc same attire
Just look greek and roman and compare indian kings same
Kshatriya in old perisan
Xsayasya that became shah
Adam daryavaush adam xshyayasya xhyasaya vasraka xyasyaxhyasyanam
Jupiter, zeuspiter , dyouspithr (dyovpitah ,indra ,)
Zeuspiter (sky father ,zeus ,dyaous ,meaning sky
Piter ,pater, pitah ,-meaning father.
King of theois ,theoi is devas
Zeuspiter,dyauspithr
And titan is none other than daityaha
Daityan
,
Understand
Greeks and indians are same , siblings, brothers and sisters
Aryan,
Just look at alexander and many indian kings( ancient) example Ajathashatru (Aryan)
Ancient indians and Hellenes were aryans,nature worshippers, Vegetarians,
Great philosphers , did not harmed our world and environment,scientific technologies, astonomy, astrology
Calendar,
Gods
Uranus
-varunaha. God if truth , faith,the seas and oceans,god of water
Etc
Agni ,-ugnis
Unis -ekam
@@abhimanyuvarmma7955 Abrahmic religions destroyed the whole world & rewrote history on their own 😠 their next target is to brainwash Indian history & eradicate Hinduism
I hate how Greece historians completely changed the history..
Alexander was very ruthless, king he Never leave his enemies alive..
This show Porus The Great defeated Alexander..
There aren't even any Indian sources that say porus won 💀
@@-_--vx5hz because taxila and all are burned
Are you joking? Alexander left the majority of his foes in Persia alive to continue on ruling their provinces in his stead instead of Darius’. The people he killed with extreme prejudice were traitors, either of this agreement or his original army.
Porus lost from Alexander by the way.
@@ConmouZ your stupid knowledge says 😅😅😅😅
here in greece we love and respect india for its great culture and history. greetings my indian brothers
❤
Looking forward to the revival of great Hellenistic culture of Greece
Just admit alexander lost and we're good 😂
As a student I want to know more about ancient and Vedic India . So, it would be nice if you could share more information on other social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook.
Dude if you can type that much for a comment, you can type that much to search it on google yourself😂
Talk to your education minister
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Google and test books won't give much information, we will have to find real information and connect all those to learn our history
Why would they say that Alexander died from illness and not from a wound in battle? It was his dream to die in battle, he was always on the frontlines.
Greek impact in India lasted until the 1500s AD.
Alexander pulled back because his army mutinied. No one would follow him further.
They started under the premise of revenging Persia for the attack on Greece and liberating Greeks who in their eyes were ruled by barbarians.
In fact, when Alexander talked with Anaxarchus, he told him that there are infinite worlds and he wept because he was not yet a ruler of one.
Maybe in his eyes, Persia had conquered the world but when he conquered Persia he discovered that there are so many territories yet to conquer. But his army? What did they get from following him thus far?
Finally, there were many celebrations after winning a battle and capturing a city, I don't understand where you came up with that they didn't.
Persepolis was literally sacked after weeks or months after capturing it during a celebration, where his soldiers got too drunk and started looting.
HE FUCKING LOST TO PORUS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
I always had the same question in mind while I studied history in school. This seems a fairly reasonable explanation. Returning defeated enemy’s kingdom is probably the shittiest story.
Yeah. It's a shtty story.
The same with all the places in Greece. They were defeated but allowed to rule themselves. Also, all the places in Anatolia...also defeated and allowed to rule themselves.
Apparently the Persians did the same. They conquered places and allowed the conquered to rule themselves. So existence of the Persian empure is also is shitty story.
The Mongols also. Most of the places they conquered were allowed to rule themselves only sending taxes...just like Alexander and the Persians.
Rome also, they had tons of client-kings that were allowed to rule themselves. Rome didn't exist because this is a shitty story of regions being allowed rule themselves as long as they pay taxes.
All of this history is a shitty story.
In other words, the Mongol empire never existed, because conquering people and letting them rule themselves as long as they pay taxes is a shitty story.
The Persian Empire also didn't exist for the same reason. Porus' kingdom was inside Persian territory...he was paying taxes to the local Persian Satrap. Which means that Porus and kingdom, being part of the Persian empire, also didn't exist.
@@tylerdurden3722 I understand that the logic is hurtful and that's why you are spewing your frustration in a mocking way; but the reality is Porus never paid any tax or anything to Alexandar as per the history, and that's what makes it really shitty and not the other examples you brought in.
@@tylerdurden3722 Hi Are u Muslim 😅
@@aritradutt1843 because Alexander died in India
@@aritradutt1843 jo jeeta wohi sikander... aab yeh bhi kya macedonian language hay??? Nothing can change the fact that alexander have defeated porus on battlefield...
Alexander feared the mighty huge elephant cavalry of Gangaridai emperors ie the Nanda emperors. He already fought Porus and severed some loss due to Porus's elephant cavalry. While Porus's cavalry wasn't so big as of Gangaridai. He knew if he dares to enter the area near Ganga Rarh he and his army would be crushed by Gangaridai emperor and their elephants
The ancient civilization of Bengal named *Gangariddhi* , it had an elephant cavalry of 50000 active _Dantis_ . Alexander with his Massidonian army feared to hear about the military power of Gangariddhi (Bengal) & never dared to move forward.
He escaped from Shah Rukh Khan
@@isituationdac574 don't distrrout history.srk in Ashoka was mere a film and ashok was the king in India in 260 BC 100 yrs later
Bro i don't think Alexander ever came to India if he had visited India where was his reference in Indian ancient text even no description of battle of hydespus even though the biggest university of ancient times was near thearby
There are two conclusion of this
Either he hadn't came to India
Or is get defeated by a small kingdom king raja porus 🤷♂️🤷♂️
So ancient people doesn't gave him much attention
@@pragyankhare1223 the news that Alexander the Great king of land earth was popularised by Western historian and his colleagues in that invasion like Justinian Plutarch .there are thousand accounts brother proves the great Alexander postponed Indian invasion due to super military power of local samrats.his general selecus had to permit his daughter marriage with chandragupt after heavy loss in war.
The crazy part is that Takshashila (one of the largest universities in the world at that time) was so close to all of these battles but no one really wrote about this big event in Indian History. It could have been destroyed by the Mughal invaders but there were not even copies. The great Chanakya from Takshashila was the only one that wrote about Alexander. Also, there is not much clarity from the Greece side either of what happened. It's just the western world that started pushing the idea of Alex defeating Porus just like they did with the Indus migration theory. There is no firm answer to what happened. Most Greece historians believe that Alexander lost to porus, most Indians believe Porus lost to alexander but he was allowed to rule his kingdom because alexander was impressed by his bravery. Some theories also say it was Chanakya and Chandragupta who had something with Alexander getting sick. I mean it was Chankaya's purpose to stop Alexander which led to Chanakya being insulted in patliputra and him vowing to create a united India.
@yitzhak shekkelsteingoldmanberg why?
We Indians are living in the past , yes Takshashila was burnt but what is preventing India from creating a new and better Takshashila ?
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@@ahirbhairavorai7793 not the same Indians, the colonization changed us and took our culture away, but the new generation is going in the right place
Chanakya was Dhakshinpala came from modern day undivided Andra pradesh or from Dakshina bharat.He was not from Takshashila but a scholar strategist from south india
Poros and his Indian army was a brave and noble opponent for the Greeks, as it immediately comes from the historic sources and in any possible detail you can imagine, mainly from the book " ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΝΑΒΑΣΙΣ" of Arrianos the historian.
Yeah Alexander's army was tired of fighting and did fear the going ahead but Alexander would have gone further he he didn't die back in Babylonia.
He beated Porus and further also won against other territories while reaching the sea at arbian sea at Gujarat coasts
@JusticeTheDoggo he lost aginst the border indo aryan tribes...he wasn't able to penetrate...he tried to do so for a whole year unsuccessful. Only Europeans make him great, for us he's just alexander the Macedonian
@A Y Macedonian According to HIS speech.
@@justicethedoggo3648 the spartans, athenians, macedonians, thivaioi, thessaloi at these times were seperate city states under the same greek region where all citizens spoke ancient greek. They were fighting each other all the time but in the end Macedonia is Greek.
@@dynamitebsb4520It's still crazy that he reached that far despite having his men being outnumbered and tired, not only that, but the mf was preparing to do an invasion to Rome and only got stopped, compared to other rulers where they got massively defeated and in turn lose all of their power, by literal plot convenience. He is called great because he had a good system in the back, spread the Greek culture while also not disturbing the other culture s and, I will repeat, NEEDED to get assassinated by PLOT.
Porus was not a powerful king but A King of a small Tribe in the borders of India who defeated Alexander.
There is 0 evidence that Porus won. Every historical account of the battle between Porus and Alexander ends with Alexander victorious.
@@MorallyDubiousFrog Then you have only read the history written by the west only and you haven't updated your knowledge since then. We had also read about Alexander's victory when we were in school, when we were kids but later got to know that's not the case at all.
@@doggos7083 Can you name a single source or account that says Alexander lost?
@@MorallyDubiousFroggo read persian and chinese records then kid
@@AmanPrakashSingh49 Name a single one that says Alexander lost.
Old greek historians mentioned the name of gangaridai Dynasty of Bengal.....
Because he would have attacked india again, Alexander was a wicked, insane conqueror, no one can trust him
@@Lmao69 কে তোমাকে বলেছে ওকে বিশ্বাস করতে। আমার কমেন্টের সাথে ওকে বিশ্বাসের কথা আসে কি করে? আর এই সব কথা গুলো মানে " ইউকেট" যে তুমি বললে। খুব আপেক্ষিক। মিনিংলেস বলতে পারো।
@@souravsantra8292 ami jani tomar "Bengali pride" Jege utheche, amio bangali kintu ami eisob kichu bolbo na.
@@Lmao69 না ভাই আমার বাঙালি প্রাইড জেগে ওঠেনি। ওটা চির কালই ছিল আছে আর থাকবেও।
কেন তুমি বাঙালি হয়ে বাঙালি হিসাবে গর্বিত নও? আর আমি বুঝলাম না তুমি কি না বলার কথা বলছো?
আমি এখানে একটা ঐতিহাসিক তথ্যের কথা বলেছি।এটা সাথে তোমার কিছু বলার বা না বলার কি আছে?
Don't let this get copyrighted or taken down by RUclips, you're doing great work and btw, at that time there was no India, it was Akhand Bharat.
Yes🔥
@@vincentcroft1473 there is accurate history. U dont want to read it is not my fault kid.
If it happens We will take down RUclips
There is no such thing as Bharat,it is Sindhu then and Sindhu now.Bharat is fake story from brahmins.
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“When the myth becomes truth, print the myth.” Some speculation is included here as if it were documented fact, but in general the myth of Alexander’s invincibility is subject to question. He withdrew from India, and he was a long way from home entwined in unfathomable intrigue…and elephants.
Yeah because his men didn't want to go on if he had the power the force 40 thousands men to fight he would of he was planing to conquer indian if he didn't die before he started indian would of got a spanking India fell to a island nation with 10percent of the India population and couldn't do shit
Naah he and he troops were exhausted as well as afraid to face Indian King
Where more than 300,000 soldiers and 1000 elephants waiting him to cross sindh
If he did he will be dead meat
Alexander has only 30k soldiers
And they are good warriors
But Indians are gaint warriors 6.5 to 7 feet height
@@GamerOne_me😂😂 fake historian
His army captured so many weak parts of the world but they decided to leave the richest nation 😂
Porus was a nobody I ln India his kingdom was nothing compared to magdha empire and other 16 empire in India
@@Chhhottaaadonncomedy is you call you self historian 🤣🤣
Persian is big empire at that time
Alexander won there
And they themselves said he was badly injured in the battle at the Indian borders
And what you exactly trying to prove
@@GamerOne_me lol bigger doesn't mean stronger you idiots you have never read a single book 😂😂
Mostly white historian try to potray thier kings stronger
Persian were easily crushed by Muslims
Plus Alexander was having hard time with with a small king like porus who is not even mentioned in Indian record
In 305 bc the army of Alexander returned with his commander Selcus nictor founder of selucid empire
And were DEFEATED by the mauryan
Greeks got thier ass kicked by
Mauryans
Nandas
Shungas
During the invasion of Alexander ( not so great) there were 16 kingdoms in India
And porus was just a local ruler with weak military
And magdha empire had 200k soldiers
3k war elephant
20k Calvary
2k chariots
Alexander only won the battle because of help from the king of takshashila who was enemy of porus
Also I want to add :
The battle started with the War Cry:-
Alexander ( sikandar) = In The Name Of Zeus ATTACK!
PORUS ( Raja Purushottam) :- HAR HAR MAHADEV!! 🔱
Then the battle began!
It was 8 hour battle fought between them and during the battle it was also raining.And alaxander lost. Also go search about Nanda, maurya and chola empire. 💪🔱 Our history was so Rich with brave Warriors!!
Think his name was A Leh si andër ( Aleksander )
Think that was in a documentary mention.
He was born like a dream.
His name make only in Albanian language full sense.
His name sikandar seems to be like skandar (lord subramanya)
@@govindsridhar6270 umm no. Actually it's persian word. When Alexander conquered persia. The persian people called him sikandar. Means 'warrior'.
@@skfamemonster anyway skandar is a warrior lord of Hinduism
@@govindsridhar6270 let me correct you here.. What you refering to is 'Skanda' which is our Lord kartikeya ( Lord of war) son of Lord shiva. But this is ' Sikandar' which is persian / arabic origin. Which is also means warrior. And there's one more that is 'Skandar' this means helper or defender and origin is islamic.
He didn't run away. His supply lines were stretched quite thin and his soldiers were home sick.
He saw the trained elephants & shit himself.
@@oomz1975You can believe that if it helps you sleep at night.
And all this happened in India all of sudden, ask yourself :)
@PotatoEngineer ..... It did? What's your point lol
@@oomz1975He saw the trained elephants that he made run over their own troops in like combat. If anything he found an epiphany. He marched and conquered the whole Achaemenid empire and more and people think he would’ve faltered. He may not have been able to support a full campaign but the amount of glazing they’re giving to largely inferior armies who weren’t as battle tested as Alexander’s Macedonian troops is insanity
Two points:
Philip II is to be read as Philip the second not Philip two
Alexander's invasion led to the establishment of Bactrian Greek state, this had a huge impact on India during late Antiquity
after uk leave India, India got worse they lie to keep face
Go on…
@@gregjones3660 Some.people theorize that Punjabis are a mix of Greek and Indians. They used this to explain the DNA link between Greeks, Iranians and Punjabis.
@@whydama And Punjabis are the people of the Bactrian Greek state?
@@gregjones3660 Bactria occupied almost all of the Punjab region. Modern Punjabis might be a result of intermarriage among Indians and Bactrian Greeks.
Jo Jeetaa Vahi Sikander Nahi
JO jeetaa Vahi "Porus" !
Porus nai jeeta
@@nik4bros porus hi jeeta
@@nik4bros abe lodu agar porus hara hota to alexander pure hindustan pe kabja nhi kar leta jabki alexander duniya jeetne hi nikla tha
@Gurpreet Chahal uh really huh ? Kaha se padhi yeh illogical baat 😂
@Gurpreet Chahal in battle yes but in Alexander's heart porus won the battle as he haven't seen a man waging war against his army ...
There were other text which had mentioned about Alexander and of the battle with King Purushotaman; where he at the battle ...was injured by poisonous arrows which did not allow him to further his conquest.
Mentira, deja de engañar a la gente, Alejandro murió invicto, deja de mentir
@@brianemmanuelleonran away from India after fighting small king 😂😂
@@Chhhottaaadonnlol what? Do you believe this video? 😂.
Or should i tell you why Chandragupta has to reclaim the northern Indus with his massive army and fight Seleucus and won? Because on early years Alexander won against smaller kings but his army was afraid to go to Nanda and great Indian Kings in inner Ancient India. Alexander won against Porushittan but was to forced to go back and conscript massive force that could fight the Nandas and other Kings. 😂
@@deepdungeon8465 Seluceus is another fiction by western, it never fucking happened, there's is literally no source of it in India lol
Well explained. Thank you.
Thanks for making this video and share with us I wanted to know about alexzander
Alexander was a great warrior but he and his army may have got exhausted when they entered India plus they underestimated the local kings might. They may have been defeated while trying to enter India. Since, no concrete evidence is available why Alexander retreated it should not be presented in a distorted manner by Western historians.
well then why we are taught in the textbooks that Alexander treated Porus like "king should treat other kings like a king"? Why was it treated like a line on the stone that only reason for Alexandre's turning back was the exhaustion of his soldiers and not considering the possibility that he may have lost against Porus or he was sh!t scared to move forward?
Except Alexander stays another year defeating the mallian and went south along the Ganges after defeating Porus. If Alexander were defeated, he would've retreated immediately but he didn't. I guess that's one proof showing him winning the war.
@@LexDomo do you even know the location of river Ganga what some calls Ganges? You are way way far off saying he went along Ganga. Your western historians are filling garbage in your brain
His generals and soldiers was tired of endless wars they wanted to enjoy what they have achieved.India for Alexander was an easy conquer
@@Trampoukosss LOL, You are funny.
Even in that time India's population was much bigger than the Greeks at that region. Alexander's total number of aarmy was around 30k and poros/puru/parvateshvar had 20k for a small kingdom in India. After facing adverse climate and terrain and seeing his demoralised army (he also got injured and severely ill) he decided to return. The war was stalemate,he died in Babylon due to injury and illness.
Alexander had the whole of Persia, with millions of people in it, he could raise much larger armies than what he used, but the larger the army, the more logistic problems you have, and the slower it moves. At the Battle of Hydaspes there were 47000 Greeks and some persians, but he did'nt cross the river with the whole army, but once the battle had started, the rest crossed upstream, and they captured thousands of indians who ran, and surrounded the rest. The war wasent a stalemate, Alexander vassalised Porus kingdom, and conquered all the lands south along the Indus, thus restoring lands that had belonged to Persia. India wasent a country back then, there were several indepent kingdoms, so Alexander wasent at war with whole of India, only the very western part of it, boarders back then were often along rivers, and so to was this boarder established, with a conquest of the same lands that Darius the great had owned. Alexander took an arrow to his left side during a siege battle, it nearly killed him. But his army saved him and took the city violently in anger. Alexander was operated on, and he recoverd. The campaign was finished, and half the army sailed back home, and the rest walked. It's not fully clear what Killed him in Babylon, but he had strained his body greatly, a dusin wounds, and perhaps malaria, along with heavy drinking.
@@JanXXVI Having travelled unopposed along the bank of the Indus, Peithon arrived at Pattala and reported that new cities were springing up, with colonists settling contentedly in them. The second branch of the delta was found to broaden into a lake containing sea fishes, proof that it communicated with the Ocean. As this arm had no strong tidal current, Alexander decided that here was the site suitable for the harbour whence he proposed to send a naval expedition from the mouth of the Indus to the Persian Gulf. Now the serious problem of the selection of the Admiral for the Fleet demanded consideration. Alexander could not be spared; he alone could guide the troops over the Gedrosian desert and retain the confidence of the men during what might be a terrible ordeal. As the crews were obliged to land frequently for provisions, the ships must sail close to the shore, where they would find depots with special markings to ensure safe collection. The Admiral must possess exceptional qualities; he must be of equable temper, resourceful in the event of storms or other disasters, experienced in the handling of subordinates, energetic, keen to explore and undaunted by the perils of a probably long voyage. Many names were passed in review, but all, for one reason or another, were discarded. Then Nearchus begged to be permitted to undertake the task: "With the help of God", he said, he would conduct the ships to Persia. Alexander knew that in Nearchus he had the right man, but hesitated to expose his old friend to so dangerous an adventure, but the sailors were delighted when they heard that Nearchus would be in charge; that selection ensured success.
As conditions on the voyage deteriorated, the crews were on the point of mutiny when they recognized the vegetation of the Carmanian coast and knew that their suffering would soon be ended. Nearchus conducted the fleet to Harmozia, on the mouth of the river Anamis, and made enquiries about the position of the army. Marching inland, he caught sight of a man in Macedonian uniform; all wept when they discovered that he was a Greek who had left the King some five days' march ahead. Nearchus was led to the Governor of the didtrict and together they mapped out the route to the camp. Whilst Nearchus returned to moor and protect his ships, the Governor hastened to break the glad news to Alexander. Days passed; doubting the reliability of the Governor, Alexander placed him in custody. Having ensured the safety of the fleet, Nearchus, with Archais and five officers, set out to find the camp. On the way they met messengers whom Alexander had despatched to seek the fleet, but his emissaries did not recognise Nearchus when they passed strangers, emaciated, unkempt, with ragged clothing, straggling bears and dishevelled hair. Archais suggested that these men might help them to find the Macedonians. Overcome with joy when they learned that the apparent beggars, whom they had scarcely noticed, were the very men for whom they were searching, the soldiers told how Alexander had been tortured with anxiety; his countenance had betrayed his distress when, after a lapse of several days, he had received no confirmation of the Governor's report. With cries of delight the soldiers conducted Nearchus and his officers to the tent of his King. Fortunately his narrative of his meeting with Alexander was preserved for posterity; it reads like an epic poem. At first Alexander did not recognise the friend of his boyhood. Overcome with emotion he wept, continuing to hold the hand of Nearchus, but unable to utter a word. Believing that the men before him were the sole survivors of the naval expedition, he strove for self control; when he could regain his voice he expressed his relief to find that Nearchus and Archais were safe. Again words failed; then, hesitatingly, he asked them to tell him how the ships and their crews perished. To which Nearchus answered that the fleet, all except four vessels, were now securely moored at the mouth of the river. Overjoyed, Alexander shed more tears, and swore by the Zeus of the Hellenes and the Libyan Ammon that this good tidings had given him more happiness than the conquest of the whole of Asia. - Alexander the Great and his Time by Agness Savill
Alexander and his army suffered many losses after 10 years of conquest.
Not to mention that they were far, far away from their rear base, and that many Macedonians had to return to their homeland.
If you don't put these things in perspective, then you can't grasp the whole story.
The kingdoms were probably powerful, but I don't see the point of Alexander pushing any further. The video and comments compare the Macedonian army to the German army. Without the support of the Macedonian phalanx, nothing was possible. The fatigue, the distance, the climate with which the Greeks were not familiar. Many factors explain the Macedonian withdrawal.
There is a reason why the Indian kingdoms were able to resist, but there are also other reasons, which explain why there was no conquest of the Persian Empire by the small Indian kingdoms, divided and which would also have failed because of the distance, the geography and the totally different climate, and exposing the elephants to the same risks as Alexander in unknown territory.
All of these factors are ignored in this video which seems more interested in establishing the superiority of a non-existent nation at the time without recounting and describing the conditions of the Macedonian expedition while ignoring the ideology, and the reasons why the Macedonians did or did not do so. It would seem that Alexander pushed the envelope too far and fell victim to his desire for greatness without considering all of his factors, but it is quite possible that the forces at play, the terrain, and the tactics of the opposing military art overcame his "madness" of excessive conquest.
@@JanXXVI what's the source of this info?
India did not defeat Alexander.
Even with the battle historically won, Alexander's army was tired and exploring new and different lands.
In the battle with Porus, many people had not even seen an elephant alive and they were considered in the true sense of the word "monsters" when they were seen.
However, Alexander managed to impose himself in front of Porus's army, even with a "Pirusian victory".
Why did he gift his conquered territories to the enemy then? Something is definitely fishy. Western historians only believe in Greek sources which seems to be very biased.
because the woman were so homely
I dont know if porus was defeated or not but he gave alexander heavy casualties with his small army, alexander feared elephents army because he had never seen elephants used in war so seeing bigger troops in india and their huge army he might have moved on the dream of conquering india
I remember reading somewhere that Gen. Zhokov, a Soviet general said that the description of Alexander's army's return from India matches that of a retreating army. Question: why would a victorious army retreat? Zhukov ends his statement by saying that he knew what a retreating army looked like. Apparently as a young officer he was part of the Soviet regiment that chased the Nazi army back to Berlin.
Seriously? Why would you make a historical judgment just from a Soviet General's quote? That doesn't make sense.
Read your history very well and gather your facts very well before you start saying what you don't know
@@ojomohemeka4087 You are an expert on Alexander's campaign in India ? Why don't you share your sources ? I shared mine. You can check Gen Zhokov's statement on internet unless of course you are living in a country that has censored all but "official " narrative.
He wasnt a young officer that was part of the soviet regiment that chased the nazis back to berlin, He led the full invasion and was the mastermind of Bagration and other Soviet Masterpieces
not an young officer but a marshal of the Soviet Union. commander of the 1st Belorussian Front consisting of 9lakh men 17000 guns and 3000 armoured vehicles.
Run away is a poor choice of words considering Alexander still wanted to push further but it was clear that moral was so low that he was going to experience an attrition so difficult to sustain. It was clear his only motive then was to retreat, at this point and moment of death is a bit muddled but again he didn't really run, it's just the situation called for a retreat against Alexander's will.
Maybe cite your sources in the description? I would like to read them.
You forgot to mention that mainland indian empire was major reason of his demotivation.
Greeks and Indians may have once fought but have always respected each other two nations with a vast history trading for thousands of years now have to make a new alliance.. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.. 🇮🇳🇬🇷🇮🇳🇬🇷🇮🇳🇬🇷🇮🇳🇬🇷
Battle of the Hydaspes. The Battle of Hydaspes was a decisive battle fought between the armies of Alexander the Great and the King Porus (also known as Poru, Paurava) in 326 BC. It ended in a victory for Alexander's Macedonian Army.
@Goner416 who knows 🫡
You should also make a video about the gympnosophists and their impact on Greeks
Alexander also took on such gympnosophist with him called kalanos/ kalyan muni
The thing is that it makes sense why Alexander let Porus maintain his position and celebrate his battle performance. The reason that this makes sense is that this is what he did with all the previous kingdoms he defeated. He did not want to destroy or take people off their positions, he wanted to spread the greek culture and language and be named as the biggest kingdoms’ conqueror who made it to connect all these areas and people and reach the end of the world. This is not just Western history. Alexander had a team of history writers with him who were writing down the battle outcomes and highlights. There are actual scripts found that worked as proof for this. Alexander showed respect to all the advantages of the Indian culture and act of war according to the scripts.
No... One Russian historian written that.... He was defeated badly....
Why just he about entering the country , he left 😅back. Illogical 🤡 theory that his Army personal want to go home 😂😂.... , IF HE WON WHY DON'T HE CAPTURE ALL INDIA AND MOVE FORWARD TO SOUTH INDIA 💀💀...
--- Scene he came to capture all world ...😂
--- Reality is porus docked💀 him so badly , he died before entering INDIA 🇮🇳🔥.....
TRUTH IS BITTER .
India is reclaiming again..
Jai shree Ram.
I think u have brain damage from believing so much western propaganda for all these years. Try reading an Indian history book for other accounts rather than blindly believing westerners who are known to spread lies and falsehoods about history. Why was there no record of Alexander or Porus in Indian texts when there were a literal Indian university right next door which documented accounts of war, even losses and casualties suffered, but none of Alexander, nor a Porus ever existing? If Alexander defeated Porus whilst convincing local king to aid in helping him defeat Porus with the promise that his kingdom would be the king's own, why let Porus live and then break your promise to the king who helped u defeat Porus, by giving Porus back his kingdom. Furthermore Porus killed Alex's favorite horse that he had for over a decade, yet Porus was granted mercy? This entire story is fraudlent and constructed by disingenuous western propagandists.
Their are only two possibilities of that event.
First , Alexander won but suffered heavy losses and his army lost motivation so instead of marching forward he made truce and left, if he would have decided to go farther king porus would have been killed but would have been defeated by Nanda empire.
Second, he lost the battle but instead of killing him king porus spare his life and let him go.
In either case it would have been a shame on Rome, so to hide this truth Roman historians wrote this event in a way we study todays.
What has Rome got to do with it!!!
@@Murlileo sorry I got confused to Macedonian empire with Roman.
you are probably brainwashed by western communists racist historiens. if porus had lost, today at least some of us might have greek looks and hair. so its clear it was just a lie to glorify greeks. by your logic alexander cheated Ambi. he promised him to have porus kingdom when defeated. Ambi would start another war with alexander because he was cheated. alexander never defeated porus there is no such records in India . their histories are paid to write lies. both in ancient times and today. it is in their same genes tha lied in the past.
@@Yogis_BitterTruth_Nirvan It's not easy to defeat him plus he had the support of greeks, Egyptians, Persians and some indian kingdoms.
@@Yogis_BitterTruth_Nirvan bro I'm not brainwashed and I said there are two possibilities and if you look at Alexander's war tactics it is not easy to defeat him but again his opponent was King porus with war elephants so there is good chance that he lost against king porus.
There are facts that provides weight to both possibilities like cruel man like Alexander wouldn't let k porus live after winning or he won but couldn't March farther due to heavy losses and hugs army waiting for him ahead. King porus is also one of my favourite King.
My opinion is also same about Alexander and the war between him and Porus.
This video, trying to explain how it was actually Porus who won the battle of the Hydaspes, is pretty much the equivalent of a four year old, covered in chocolate, trying to explain how it was actually a bunch of ninjas that broke in and ate all the cookies.
4:42 That's what everyone call savage 😎😂
The thought of having more vegetarian food got him worked up with anxiety 🤣
Greeks new how to fight elephants , persia had elephants too. The soldiers of alexander where fighting a constant war for 10 years wwii was for 4-5 years.
He didn't run away his army was exhausted and wanted to go home to see their families after a decade of conquest
He didn't run away from India. He conquered the western bank of the Indus and set up a vassal state in land on the eastern bank.
He had defeated 1 or 2 small nations but when it came to porus he was defeated miserably
@@jknjhh9225 Credited to have been a legendary warrior with exceptional skills, Porus unsuccessfully fought against Alexander the Great in the Battle of the Hydaspes (326 BC).[2] In the aftermath, an impressed Alexander not only reinstated him as his satrap but also granted him dominion over lands to the south-east extending until the Hyphasis (Beas).[3][4] Porus reportedly died sometime between 321 and 315 BC.[5]
@@silencemeviolateme6076 That is clearly a made up story lol,You didn't even saw the video dude
@@jknjhh9225 all we know about porus we know from Greek sources. Most bigots don't like Alexander.
@@silencemeviolateme6076 Greek sources were just lying . It's not because “Bigots” don't like alexander it's just that they are stating the truth. I don't need to explain anything you can just watch this video and understand why alexanders victory is illogical.
I don't get the comment section. Alexander's army was depleted and exhausted over the course of like a decade going from macedon, thousands of kilometres to the east to india and fought porus and defeated him, yet people think porus is the real winner?
Alexander turned back because his soldiers wanted go home not because India was particularely impressibe
And that happend only he entered India, at least make good execuses Dude.
Please if possible make videos on great kings of medivial and ancient history of India like
Samudragupta , Harshvardhana Rajputs and many more
Which is not taught us that well in school as they mainly focus on British and mugals
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i think you should have piad attention in histoory because all of this was taught
@@anasaftab2342 but it was not elaborated as much as mugals
(In CBSE board)
He died of septicemia from a wound he sustained in India for which he got all men, women, and animals of the area killed. There are different versions of his death i.e he died around Iraq but one thing the historians have failed to mention is that on his death bed he kept on wailing from sheer pain from infested wound and repeatedly kept on saying '' is there anyone but anyone who can exchange few more days of their life so that he can die in Macedonia and in return that person can have the whole of his kingdom''.
No he was not injured in india alexander was injured in battle of issue which happened in Afghanistan
@shiraz dont cinema baga chusinav bidda
@@aravshastri2411 that was India...the area was part of ancient India and was inhabited by pakthuas an indo aryan clan mentioned in vedas
@@dynamitebsb4520 brother it was not indians who did it it was Persians and still alexander won that fight
Wonderful death bed quote, reminds me hearing a similar quote from a separate reference. Thx. Food for thought.✌️
There is no record of a king named Porus at all... The truth is that Alexander never reached India at all... they made a fictional character named Porus and defeated him in a story.
this topic should be added to NCERT books of Indian history...
Mah he befriended the wrong tribes... If he would've sided his kingdom w the. Punjab or whatever they're called I think history might have a different tune. Still my favorite leader all time I still believe in his visions of a single empire of people and diverse culture. My theory is he's buried first to the valley of the kings. Now a casino....and then was later split to relics and shipped throughout the empire from Greece to past India to other tribes that may have been linked to alexander. but I have no true evidence. Just a hypothetical assumption.
I have my own take on this one
If we look closely into the history the famous takshshila university had no such records of alexander's campaign in india.
It could mean that alexander after battling a local cheiftain and getting a taste of war elephants would have backed up gone to macedonia because if he actually did something very significant it would have been recorded in the takshsila university
There was no effort towards historical record keeping in India until after the rise of the Maurya Empire. Even the Nanda empire, the Maurya’s direct predecessor, is known through either contemporary Greek sources or Mauryan sources written centuries later.
@@MorallyDubiousFrog bro read about taxila university first then say these things
@@avigupta8741 Taxila, the city that was under Alexander’s control during the battle of the Hydaspes. The city that would later be used as capital of the Indo-Greek kingdom for roughly a century.
Maybe make an actual argument instead of “mAyBe ReAd aBoUt iT”
There is no remaining history books or any kind of books from takshshila university ..... Unfortunly everything was destroyed. Actually the first history book from ancient India is Indica from Megasthenes...
@@MorallyDubiousFrog
So you want to say that Alexander the so called great came all over from macedonia just to defeat Porus and losing his soldiers so he can gift porus his own kingdom just cause he was impressed by porus bravery 🤡🤡, wow that make sense,
Bruh who tf even exaust in battle? That's just a lame excuse from greeks. The same Indian have mentioned about how seleucus attacked on India but got defeated, Bro just accept the truth that Alexander the so called great was great only in the region of rats but he was just a shrimp in front of Indian king.
Please do a video for ur team also. We want to know about ur team
Thank God I'm not her student in the school teaching about alexander the great.... Rip those who think alexander the great ran away because he was afraid 😳.... Think 💬🤔 what if India was alexander the great neighbour country... Sooo rip rip 😔 man India kings.... He defeated many powerful kings on his way ...
Alexander didn't wanted to continue invading india because he knew even after porus there were other strong kingdoms which also had elephant troops with a much more large army..so even his soldiers afraid to continue after hearing this.....
If Alexander training a big size army india whould be Conquest
@@matthijs_de_ligtdo you know about Chandragupta Maurya?
@@eekks yes
@@eekks Alexander better than chandragupta
@@matthijs_de_ligt Alexander ran like a pu$$y after the war with Porus, Chandragupta was 100x more powerful than Porus. I'm from Pakistan but i must accept the fact that Chandragupta>>>>Alexander
I'm 23 years old and today i have learnt about kingdom of Porus.
thanks for indian text books
Which history book is cited here who? wrote
Lots of facts with lovely❤😊 voice🥰
Alexander came to India exhausted after fighting a lot of battles along the way from Greece to Central Asia. Along the way he suffered massive loss in soldiers, horses and mental health. He was exhausted. When he saw the Indian Infantry filled with Massive elephants it was just too much for him and his men. It was the first battle for Indian Kings and may be the 100th battle for Alexander, so I think Alexander just decided to go back. If it was the first battle for both kings (Indians and Alexander) then I have no doubt Alexander would have won due to his sheer military planning capabilities but it was wise decision by Alexander to pull back. This does not make Alexander a less King.
If he had a sheer capability of military planning then he should've planned in advance about the oncoming losses that he would get through in wars on his way..
He was too much confident about his troops which resulted in backing off from Indian kings.
This ofcourse doesn't make him a less king but he wasn't really that great as well..
@@rajeshmanoharan4560 I mean.. it's about his speed, and remember he died very young.
@@theRatPackwasthebest that doesn't make any credit to his success.. We've never lived in those era and haven't seen what happened at that point of time.. Its all about the stories narrated about them in history in which half of the stories can be fictional too..
To celebrate the character called "Alexander" they would've exaggerated a few stories and who knows it..
I don't think that alexander would win even if it was his first battle. One of the reasons is elephants if alexanders army don't know what a elephant is then they will run away the movement they see a elephant army,I hope you understand and there are a lot of explanations about how alexander ran of from india considering those i don't think even if it was his first battle he would have been destroyed
@Angela Bronckhurst Even the army of 334 won't touch thte indian resistance imo because no human army at that time would last against the army of thousands of elephants who were trained to kill,Plus alexanders army don't had any training in how to fight a elephant probably they were even saw elephants for the first time in india and there are other reasons aswell.
He didn't run away. He fell sick and his soldiers rebelled
Yes
Typical class 4th history book knowledge
Awesome ma'am lovee it
Alexander the Great was a military genius, he hadn't lost a battle since he was 16 years old. His battlefield tactics are taught to this day in top military schools around the world. At the Battle of the Hydaspi River, Alexander not only won but wiped out the Poros army as about half of the Indian king's soldiers were killed. After the battle, Alexander and his soldiers remained for a month in the region and made war campaigns against other Indian tribes. He also founded two new cities in India. One he named Nikaia, in order to commemorate his victory in India and the other Bucephala, in honor of his favorite horse that he rode as a child, had it in every battle and finally died in India at the age of 30 due to heat and suffering.
However, Alexander was impressed by the pride and dignity of Poros and granted him the new territories he conquered in India. He also made sure to make King Porus a friend of King Taxilus, in order to have two reliable allies at his back. In fact, Alexander's chivalrous behavior towards Poros made the Indians consider him Dharmavijai or a conqueror through morality. In general, such was his genius that he always took care to grant privileges to the conquered and to treat them with respect. Before each battle, he communicated with the opposing king or general and in this way in several cases he became the conqueror without even giving battle and suffering losses.
In 326 BC, Alexander the Great's army approached the borders of the Nanda Empire, whose troops according to the historical accounts of the time were much stronger than anything Alexander had faced so far and very well trained. The Nandas had been informed of Alexander's advance and were waiting for him with 80.000 cavalry, 200.000 infantry, 6.000 chariots and 6.000 war elephants.
Alexander's desire was to continue his advance into India and face them, however he met with strong reaction from his army. His physically and mentally exhausted soldiers gathered in the camp and protested loudly saying that they did not want to continue. Also the summer monsoons which were raging at that time must also have had a negative effect on the morale of the army, which had probably never experienced such a phenomenon before. It has been raining non-stop for the past 70 days. Alexander the Great finally decided at this point to turn south along the Indus River, securing the banks of the river as the border of his empire by establishing yet another Alexandrian city.
This is Alexandria under Hyphasis, which was founded in July 326 BC on the eastern borders of Alexander's empire. It is also located in the Punjab region, which in 1947 was divided between India and Pakistan. Thus the Federal State of India, Punjab, with Chandigarh as its capital, and the Pakistani province with Lahore as its capital, are essentially declared under the same name. After returning from India to Babylon, Alexander demobilized about 10.000 soldiers, whom he sent back to Greece, giving them gold and large indemnities.
source - trust me bro 😆😆😆😆😆 , porus was small king in punjab area , his rule was less 1% land area of that time India and you wrote all that shit originated from either tiktok or same random street historian.
@@Saurabh20000Blah blah, OP said nothing but facts.
Half of Indian armies were killed..bruh..that was not even 1%..he would have been crushed if had faced the mighty magadha empire 😂
The ancient civilization of Bengal named *Gangariddhi* , it had an elephant cavalry of 50000 active _Dantis_ . Alexander with his Massidonian army feared to hear about the military power of Gangariddhi (Bengal) & never dared to move forward.
May be they are exhausted+ powerful Kingdom
both are the reasons
Yes, brave Indian elephants 🤣
@@cernunnosthehornedone3336 your homas is in comic books friend...ur ancestors were humiliated and defeated by Semitic people
@@cernunnosthehornedone3336 with great kings even a small king like porus threats alexander😂😂😂
@@cernunnosthehornedone3336 yes only Brave warrior can use brave elephants
Alexander never defeated " Porus ". He made good his escape after surrendering Ambhi kingdom of Taxila.
ASTONISHINGLY, we Indians don't even know who Porus was- what was his name ? Why not refer to Hydespes by its local name ?
Our left leaning Brit taught historians faithfully follow what one court historian of Alexander wrote.
Local tradition identifies Porus as " PARMANANDA CHANDRA KATOCH " the Katoch ruler of a dynasty recognized internationally as the oldest in the world and holding sway from the kangra hills upto Multan for considerable period of time
If you don't know...don't plaster your inferior opinion
Strange that this so called escape saw him conquering lands along the whole of Indus river to the sea. Which Porus was made Satrap of.
Alexander's Historian did not write of the invasion into india. As he had fallen from favor and he concluded the history with Alexander's conquest of Persia, 5 years after the invasion started. There are 4 others that wrote the stories: Ptolemy, Nearchus, Aristobulus and Cleitarchus, along with soldiers stories. From these sources there are 4 historians that have written and based their history on those first hand sources. Arrian, Plutarch, Curtius Rufus and Diodorus, which are the surviving text that we have.
@@JanXXVI all European bias in their versions of history. Funny that an Indian perspective isn't respected or even glanced at.
@@xCestLaVie1 It's not bias, it's the sources we have. I would gladly look att indian sources too, but they would need to be from historians of that time. But do we have any?
@@JanXXVI well didnt you hear, India conquered Macedonia... you dont believe me, where's your source?
Alexander didn't even make an impact where he was recorded, the king they mention doesn't have much of a record (we can only guess which king, which was a small king), plus the British and portuguese had a habit of going around burning records of things that weren't European approved.
Logic dictates that if the British didn't like what they found about that portion of history so they burnt it (Alexander being defeated). Otherwise why burn any parts of history if it wasn't for a malicious intent.
It's either that or logical that Alexander didn't actually conquer anything but needed to have an excuse for turning back or retreating so a story was invented. If you knew much about India at the time, you'd realize it's like me saying that Rome was conquered but Roman's never kept a record of it, which is ridiculous.
So you telling me, give me proof it didn't happen is ridiculous. That means anyone can claim that something happened, like Europeans do for Alexander, which the whole situation is ridiculous when you actual examine whats factual. Especially doing everything an army would do while they're retreating, and then blaming it on sickness and fatigue.
Alexander was not able to sub due all of India but he did already have several vassals there. It was only because his army was tired and ready to return home
Good joke😂
@@krishnachaithanya7824 This is similar to the death of Genghis Kahn. If both of these individuals did not die of illness, they would have eventually returned to finish their campaign.
that's cap lol. Alexander never entered India. He only defeated Porus at the banks of Hydaspes (Indus River) in present day Pakistan. He had only 2 vassals Porus and the King of Takshila. When he never entered India then how can he have vassal states? Plus India at that time was ruled by Nanda empire which was the second strongest empire after the Macedonians at that time period.
Pls make video on karma(does that really work, if yes then how)
Very well done 👍
Why did Alexander the great **run** away from india?
Hey Indian monk , I'm following ur videos from a year now , ik that u took a break at that time for personal reasons , I'm just so glad that I found ur channel , and the first video that I saw was either the oldest scripture or did Hindus built pyramids , but from a video a person is bothering me , he said that every good or bad is just because of God , he / she tourture us humans , i know that is a very Christian thought and we are part of God not created by some magic , we are aatma and God is Parmatma.
Well keep doing ur work , because a year ago i became atheist , yeah i know shame on me , but these are the videos wich took me to the right path again . Thank u
Just turn of his notification also if you want nore acient scientific wisdom follow project shivoham channel, he has most accurate description, of ancient science
believers and disbelievers both are blind, stupid and illogical. a real logical person will see and admit that I don't know if god exists or not. nor have I seen him nor I known entire universe to come to conclusion that god doesn't exist becuase absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. i hope all of us understand this point. this is the correct way to live life. that dosent mean going to temples or praying is waste of time becuase we don't know god exists or not, so it cant be waste. so if it exists then our prayers will reach it, if it dosent exist its okay there is no waste of time either. the important thing is what is the useful lesson, wisdom there for me to learn from the spirituality, story, god, diety or temple so that we can use it to practically implement the wisdom in our lives to improve our lives and evolve more which will benefit not only us but others too. i think this is the correct attitude ancient Indians and sages had. and that could have been the only reason why god itself might have to incarnate before us multiple times because our ancestors were the only trustworthy. the beauty of sanatan dharma is that the more logical we become the more spiritual we become. but i am open to the idea that not every thing in the universe might fit under human level of logic. so the magical things that divine enties perform shows us that it may be possible for the things to exist which defy natures laws just because we can never know 100% of the existence. so we are left with only open mind and possibilities. never conclude anything without witnessing it. this might be the reason why our ancestors had so many shakshatkaars of the devne entities.
I appreciate ur frankness and honesty @Mihawk
the threat of the elephants, the exhaustion, the unfamiliar lands, the death trap river--- all of these made his troops moral extremely low causing a mutiny and forcing Alexander the great to flee from India.
Hey chandragupta the indian king also fought againt Alexander with the help of his guru Chanakya
Where did you read this? That's debatable. Chandragupta came to power after Alexander. They probably did not even meet.
Chandragupta Maurya fought a war against Selucus Nicator Alexendar’s military general
Another example of Indian Parallel Dimension History.
Chandragupta Maurya fought Selucus Nicator, a general of Alexander in 356 BC, after the death of Alexander the Great ( in 336 BC)
Chandragupta wasn't even in power during Alexander's invasion
Title : Why did Alexander the great run away from India?
Me: Cause he wasn't great.
Pls also elaborate...why his commander in chief died, his own horse killed in the battle, how his body guards saved him from poras etc also!!
The soldiers became homesick
Very informative
Actually Alexander figured out that pouras a little king gave so much trouble what would a powerful king like charagupta under the guidance of Chanakya be capable of .He thought better to leave.
Nanda rulers during his time
Chandragupta rose to power during the time of Alexander's death , there was no such famous thing as "Chandragupta" during his time , all credit goes to king Porus ( Purushottam )
There was no Chandragupta at that time
Dhanananda Was the Magadh king king that time
Because after conquering the Persian empire (the superpower of the age) and a part of India his men longed to return home after many years of campaigning, while Alexander if given the choice wanted to conquer the entire world
Persian Empire WAS FAR WEAKER THAN INDIA AT THAT TIME LOL.... And Persia also got weakened severely before Alexander's conquest, he could never defeat them evenly.
@Shawn-tf4tm During the time of Alexander's invasion of the Indian subcontinent (around 327-325 BCE), India was not a unified nation but rather a collection of numerous kingdoms and republics.
While these Indian states had considerable military and political influence within the Indian subcontinent, they did not possess the characteristics of a superpower in the same way that some empires in other parts of the world did during different historical periods. Superpowers are typically defined by their ability to project power and influence across vast regions and even beyond their own borders, which was not the case for ancient India
@@azzking9305 Bro India when divided always came together to fight off invading enemies.
@@Blastizor we’ll never know
पुरु वंश का परिचय और गोत्र प्रवर----
चंद्रवंशी महाराजा ययाति के पुत्र पुरु के वंशज पुरु,पौर,पौरववंशी वंशी क्षत्रिय कहलाते हैं,इस वंश के महाराजा मतिनार सूर्यवंशी सम्राट मान्धाता के नाना थे,महाराजा पुरु से एक शाखा कुरु वंश की चली,इनसे चन्द्रवंश की अन्य शाखाएँ भी चली,एक शाखा बाद तक पुरु या पौरव वंशी कहलाती रही...
गोत्र--भारद्वाज
प्रवर तीन--भारद्वाज,ब्रह्स्पतय,अंगिरस
वेद--यजुर्वेद
शाखा--वाजसनेयी
नदी--महेंद्र तनया(सतलुज)
वृक्ष--वट
छत्र--मणिक मुक्त स्वर्ण छत्र
ध्वजा--लाल झंडे पर चंद्रमा का चिन्ह
शस्त्र--खडग
परम्परा--विजयादशमी को खडग पूजन होता है
शाखाएँ--हरिद्वार क्षत्रिय राजपूत,कटोच राजपूत,पुरी(खत्री)
गद्दी एवं राज्य--प्रतिष्ठानपुर,पंजाब आदि
वर्तमान निवास--पाकिस्तान,पंजाब,आजमगढ़ एवं बहुत कम संख्या में बुलंदशहर,मेरठ में भी मिलते हैं,पंजाब और यूपी में कहीं कहीं मिलने वाले भारद्वाज राजपूत भी संभवत: पुरु अथवा पौरववंशी राजपूत ही हैं.
प्रसिद्ध पुरु अथवा पौरवंशी--विश्वविजेता यवन सिकन्दर को हराने वाले वीर पुरुवंशी राजा परमानन्द अथवा पुरुषोत्तम
पुरुवंश की शाखा हरिद्वार क्षत्रिय---------
गोत्र--भार्गव,प्रवर तीन--भार्गव,निलोहित,रोहित
यह पुरु वंश की उपशाखा है,पृथ्वीराज चौहान के समय इस वंश के आदि पुरुष राव हंसराम पंजाब से अपने परिवार के साथ हरिद्वार आकर बसे थे,उस समय यहाँ राजा चन्द्रपुंडीर पृथ्वीराज चौहान के सामंत के रूप में शासन कर रहे थे,इन्होने राव हंसराम को जागीर प्रदान की और हरिद्वार में पुरु वंश की शाखा का विस्तार होने लगा,बाद में इस इलाके में तुर्कों का दबाव होने के कारण पुरुवंशी क्षत्रिय यहाँ से पलायन कर पूर्वी क्षेत्र में चले गए और आजकल यूपी के आजमगढ़ के आसपास मिलते हैं,हरिद्वार से आने के कारण इन्हें हरिद्वार क्षत्रिय राजपूत वंश कहा जाने लगा.....
पाकिस्तान के पंजाब क्षेत्र में कई मुस्लिम राजपूत वंश जो खुद को चन्द्रवंशी बताते हैं उन वंशो का अस्तित्व भारत के हिन्दू चंद्रवंशी राजपूतो में नहीं मिलता है,न ही अलग से 36 वंशो की किसी भी सूची में इनका नाम मिलता है.चूंकि सिकन्दर के हमले के समय पुरुवंश का शासन पंजाब और भारत के सीमावर्ती क्षेत्र में था इसलिए हो सकता है ये पुरुवंशी क्षत्रियों के ही वंशज हों.....
Please make video on hanuman immortality and where is he now
It's not easy
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avatar of Shiva, immortal Hanuman is a cheeranjivi and is master of nirman kaya, 8 powers and 9 nidhis. he exists in his sukshma sharira (astral body). when he wants and according to dharma he can manifest his physical body (sthula sharira). he highest yogis like Taulsi das was able to meet him kaliyuga. i doubt any hight level yogis exist today.
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@@Yogis_BitterTruth_Nirvan can you guide where can I learn more about this
Alexander got out of dodge the moment he ran out of gift cards to hand out to the Subhumans.
Alexander the Great
Nothing great about him.
@@dharmapersona2084 Says who
Me
@@dharmapersona2084 he defeated the Persian empire continuously and made Macedonia, Greece, Egypt etc free from Persian over rule and taxes . And he did that at a small age, in a small time and with around 50,000 soldiers against 2-3 times larger armies. What else do you need for to be called great? Ashoka was also great without conquering persia because there are many ways a king can get the great title. Ashoka did other great thing and Alexander did other great things so both got the title
Everything is great about him as a person from that ancient times, everyone is jealous that had no equal
Correct history told. Satisfying logic and common sense
He had to because his huge army was involving and giving their hands for a year he need to maintain his army possession too
@Indian Monk, nice video,while legends are just stories, just a small correction I think, Alexander did have an impact on Indian culture as a whole, we can see that as Greek stylised elements in Budha statues, Ashoka too was inspired by Alexander, while most of this is just legends so it comes to debate how much of it is true, the idea of a Indian Nation as whole did not exist, the Maurian dynasty while the first unifier of the subcontinent and even that didn't last as Alex's empire, the land as always been small fiefdoms having a battle royale,which is still seen today as the great divide like between north and south
I think Alexander didn't but his General did. As Chandragupta was married to his daughter. There onwards a relationship was established between Greeks and Indians.
@@twilight9590 yes you are correct, furthermore indian culture is not barbaric like desert cults, it allows people if they come in peace.
The Greeks left with a lasting impression of India. Most modern countries have always been a bunch of fiefdoms
India is a civilizational state just like china. We are not nation state like Europeans...we are pagans...pagans cannot have a nation state.
Alexander the Great did not run away from India. On the contrary he established the hellenic kingdom of Bactria in Northwestern India. His indian campaign was absolutely victorious despite the exhaustion of the greek army.
Nobody with a critical mind would know with certainty what happened so long ago without any researched facts. We can only put forward scenarios and narratives. Unfortunately, many people still believe in narratives as facts both ways.
yes... nobody can know what happened for sure even with so many technology in our modern days. people out here debating about something which happened thousands of years ago. all of them need some therapy.
He conquered everything.
Alexander might never have seen an elephant and must have thought these Indians are still keeping dinosaurs as pets 🤣🤣
They saw elephants. Tigers. Lions and more. Nothing they hadn't seen in Africa.
I find your theory about the truce between Alexander and King Porus compelling. However Greek influence in the Gandhara culture that followed is obvious, no? The two cultures obviously influenced each other very much.
Arieb Azhar
That (the two cultures obviously influenced each other very much) was outside India & in the present-day Afghanistan. In fact, in the post-Alexandrian war with Seleucus Nicator (who was Alexander's general & king after the former's death), entire Afghanistan & Baluchistan (Gedrosia) were given to Chandra Gupta Maurya who became the son-in-law of Seleucus (for a 500 elephant force in return, to defeat the recalcitrant Persians, that was done).
After that, Indo-Greek kingdoms were thriving in Afghanistan with many Greeks settling there (may be they found the terrain similar to theirs) whose armies made occasional forays into India (particularly into Gujarat under the Gurjara Pratihara kings ) - after the fall of Maurya Empire & before the Kushana Empire based at Purusha`pura (Peshawar) rose in NW India.
In so far as cultural exchanges is concerned there were many. Indian Astronomers & Greek Astronomers streamlined their systems to the 12-segment (Raashi) zodiac, in addition to the Indian 27-star (Nakshatra) system. They compared notes on the five (visible-to-the-naked-eye) planets - Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus & Saturn as well as their paths along with that of Sun & Moon in the sky. May be the "week" & naming of weekdays was the result - as the week (half of a fortnight, between Full Moon & New Moon) is more convenient than the month. It is significant that the Raashi names are the same in both systems. The Astrology part continued even after this prelude, as Romaka (Roman) & Paulisa (Paul) methods. Greek classic "Iliad" has the same theme as Ramayana (stealing the other king's wife) & Mahabharata war.
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His soilder just got tired of fighting
You really suggest a lot of bias points. Indian forces were not superior in tactics or weapons. He didn't flee from fear of Indian armies, Alexander did not flee due to facing brave armies for the first time lol. He had fought brave armies at every step. Poor supply lines, and over extended campaign led to moral losses. Moral loss is devastating in any time period, revolt is a deep threat. Also a sheer lack of interest from other Maradonian nobles mixed with sickness made each battle in India a dangerous rolling of dice. Elephants are clumsy beasts, slow and easy to out maneuver, with a tendency to kill many from their own armies. Horses are far better in war scenario's. India faced an already waning Macedonian army who had been led to places they did not want to be. When they clashed with large, well led India forces, moral plummeted as the lands they took were unwanted by Alexanders generals. His army had no chance of victory in India. Even though he out maneuvered his enemies with superior battle tactics. It was a doomed campaign from day one. He needed to return his men home, recoup and rebuild. Then strike. India would have fallen without issue if he had returned to his strongholds for respite and resupply before attacking in force. Alex lost more men on the march home then he did in India. And how do you know what was written long ago was distorted? lol were you there?
Ok let's assume he won that battle and wanted to conquer lol how would you ho further with an upcoming empire of nanda and vikram with nanda about 2 lakh soldiers aand infantry and 2000 elephants not vikram's army was eve larger how would you a victorious king ( self proclaimed) win another battle of an army like of nandas when he couldn't even defeat porus with an army of 30k soldiers infantry and 200 war elephants what a joke. 😂
porus and all indian soldiers were consider very taller than greeks . greek account says that indian king puru was around 7 feet and roman travellers wrote that indians are much more taller than all there asian counterparts and taller than greeks . this says alot about that time as at that time india was top of the world in wealth ,education everything . and we had no invadors or no food scarcity as this land had never been until the british and mughal invasion which made indians looks like what they are now
@@AmanPrakashSingh49 the joke is your facts. India was far from united. He was allied with powerful Indian tribes. Thats how genius. Easy to see youve never served in the military or studied warfare when you make a moot point like that.
@@hyperionzii5889 I think this comment of yours answers your baseless unbiased assumption in itself if you are objective enough to understand it. (Oh sorry sorry literate enough to understand it ). I never said anything about INDIA being UNITED. I just said How come your World Renowned Victor (self proclaimed obviously) would have possisbly think to win INDIA when He couldn't even defeat a TRIBAL LORD.( in that time PORUS was nothing more than a TRIBAL LORD even though he was a king cause there were many empires in INDIA like NANDA, VIKRAMADIYA"S and many more infront of them he was simply like a rock infront of a mountain. Do your research on this I mean you are a military man afterall so research on this a little if you are capable of knowledge that is). My MOOT POINT to that comment was simple " How can Someone possibly expect to believe that a self proclaimed victor who killed thousands if not millions of kings even after surrendered, being looted with their pride, their wealth suddenly felt manly by seeing an Indian Tribal Lord that he left him alive battling whom he got killed his favourite horse and didn't even cared to take the wealth the looted treasure ( If he was able to win that is) of that SAME nation to fight which he LOST THOUSANDS OF HIS SILDIERS. How Believable. and he just left that country. As I said the question answers in itself if you are literate enough, knowledgeable enough to understand it.
He captured jain monk and learned a lot from him and taken back on his way back. Alexander realised there is no happiness continuing voilence. That is also a part of history.
Alexander won in India but his men refused to keep fighting. They had accomplished what they set out to in conquering the Persian empire. His men wanted to see home again and enjoy their wealth.
ROFL... He didnt he had plans for Arabia-Carthage-Rome including INDUS with new fresh armies from the Rest of Hellenic world.
I am fairly familiar with Alexander the Great having learned about him in history class in Germany. However, I have never learned that Alexander won the battle against King Porus or even took him prisoner. I did learn that Alexander's army suffered so many losses that he deemed it unwise to continue. Moreover, his soldiers mutinied shortly thereafter because they were sick and tired of war and wanted to go home.
You must rethink.about it and read Arrian and Plurarch them
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@@photosokratis I merely discussed WHAT I LEARNED in MY History classes in highschool some 40 years ago.
@@elfrad1714 you're teacher was wrong my friend
Alexander actually stayed another year in India after the battle. He went south and defeats the mallian. He would've continued into India if not for his army begging him to turn back.
@@LexDomo why only in india Alexander army wanted to return??
It is only westians concern that Alexander greatness may shatter 🥲 therefore they polished it!😑😆
Alexander did not fear nothing, but his compatriots were to tired to fight and only fight.... while their families were waiting for their return home! They were anxious to share the vast world they have gained already.
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He really feared about elephants used by Indians and their war tactics because of that he and porus became great friends
horses feared because of war elephants and Alexander's cavalry failed
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Why do you want to learn fake history?
@@cernunnosthehornedone3336 what is fake
@@anushrisalunke878 there is archaeological evidence that the Greeks ruled north west India after the conquest. Their King was called Demitrius.
Thank you for a truth reveling fact. Till the date European thinks they are the leading race for democracy, education and civilisation.
Loved your clip. Keep going
Europeans weren't even close to advanced as Indians were back then. They always considered Indians as mythological in a lot of ways.
he crushed india he never ran
Sounds like an Indian version of " out of Africa" that is a bogus attempt to piggy back of Alexander's greatness.