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Porus was the renowned ruler of his time.

King of ancient punjab who had their realm from jhelum to chenab (in Greek, the Hydaspes and the Acesines) , he came on the way of king Alexander the Great during south asia invasion, he defeated in the year 326 bc near Hydaspes river thats why called Battle of the Hydaspes that one. After the defeat alexander asked pours how to treat you he replied "treat me as a king" by hearing this alexander returned his kingdom back to pours.

The river Jhelum is called Vitasta in the Rigveda and Hydaspes by the ancient Greeks. The Vitasta is mentioned as one of the major rivers by the holy scriptures of the Indo-Aryans - the Rigveda. It has been speculated that the Vitasta must have been one of the seven rivers (sapta-sindhu) mentioned so many times in the Rigveda. The name survives in the Kashmiri name for this river as Vyeth. According to the major religious work Srimad Bhagavatam, the Vitasta is one of the many transcendental rivers flowing through land of Bharata, or ancient India.

The River Jhelum below the bridge beside Jhelum City.

The river was regarded as a god by the ancient Greeks, as were most mountains and streams; the poet Nonnus in the Dionysiaca (section 26, line 350) makes the Hydaspes a titan-descended god, the son of the sea-god Thaumas and the cloud-goddess Elektra. He was the brother of Iris, the goddess of the rainbow, and half-brother to the Harpies, the snatching winds. Since the river is in a country foreign to the ancient Greeks, it is not clear whether they named the river after the god, or whether the god Hydaspes was named after the river. Alexander the Great and his army crossed the Jhelum in BC 326 at the Battle of the Hydaspes River where it is believed that he defeated the Indian king, Porus. According to Arrian (Anabasis, 29) , he built a city "on the spot whence he started to cross the river Hydaspes", which he named Bukephala (or Bucephala[disambiguation needed]) to honour his famous horse Bukephalus or Bucephalus which was buried in Jalalpur Sharif. It is thought that ancient Bukephala was near the site of modern Jhelum City. According to a historian of Gujrat district, Mansoor Behzad Butt, Bukephalus was buried in Jalalpur Sharif, but the people of Mandi Bahauddin, a district close to Jehlum, believed that their tehsil Phalia was named after Bucephalus, Alexander's dead horse. They say that the name Phalia was the distortion of the word Bucephala. The waters of the Jhelum are allocated to Pakistan under the terms of the Indus Waters Treaty. India is working on a hydropower project on a tributary of Jhelum river to establish first-use rights on the river water over Pakistan as per the Indus waters Treaty.

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The porus is famous territory and it has good condition for cultivation and it is situated in two rivers. So Alexander offered strong resistance territory

King of ancient punjab who had their realm from jhelum to chenab (in Greek, the Hydaspes and the Acesines) , he came on the way of king Alexander the Great during south asia invasion, he defeated in the year 326 bc near Hydaspes river thats why called Battle of the Hydaspes that one. After the defeat alexander asked pours how to treat you he replied"treat me as a king" by hearing this alexander returned his kingdom back to pours.

One of the important incident was Alexander died in Babylon.

Porus is the great hero, who strongly against the invasion of alexander.

King Porus was the Hindu King of Paurava, an ancient state within the territory of modern day Punjab, located between the Jhelum river and the Chenab river (in Greek, the Hydaspes and the Acesines) rivers in modern day Punjab, Pakistan, and later of dominions extending to the Beas (in Greek, the Hyphasis). Porus fought Alexander the Great in the Battle of the Hydaspes River in 326 BC (at the site of modern day Mong) and was defeated. He then served Alexander as a client king.