Please read.
I have, AFAIK he was descended from the Puru tribe of the Vedic people and he ruled over northern Punjab, with his territory mostly in Pakistan.
Also, sub-continental sources aren't the most reliable.
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Please read.
Also, sub-continental sources aren't the most reliable.
Exactly.
Have you ever heard of a Hindu called Porus?
Porus (and its Old Avestan more formal version Porushasp) have been Persian boy names for closing on 3500 years now.
Even today there are many Porus Parsi males. One in my family.
Have you ever heard of a Hindu Porus?
Why?
Should they not be naming their boys after arguably their only international military hero?
Please read Greek and Roman sources. They are the most accurate. As they were the adversaries.
Cheers, Doc
Except Puru was the name of a Vedic tribe, Porus could easily be related to them.
Read Arrian.
Read John D Clare.
The troops and elephants were Indian no doubt.
Cheers, Doc
Maybe, if I get the time.
Troops were Pothwari, but yes the elephants would have been Hindustani (elephants are not native to Pakistan AFAIK).
Baba in those days there were two mega civilizations abutting each other.
The Hindu civilization. The Persian civilization.
The Indus Valley Civilization itself was an amalgam of highland Iranic people coming down and mingling with Indic plains dwellers and herdsmen.
This is now borne out by recent genetic studies.
Persian satrapy extended significantly into what is now Pakistan.
The Vedic Puru tribe itself are close cousins of the early Avestan Aryans.
The Mahabharata for all intents and purposes speaks of the later continuum of the schism between the two. The Ahura (Asura) worshippers and the Deva (Daeva) worshippers. Even though the account is primarily Indic (The War of the Ten Kings).
Cheers, Doc
Please don't call me Baba, I'm almost certain I'm younger than you.
We don't know the ethno-linguistic group of IVC, but they were not Indo-Aryans (they came about during the Vedic migrations) nor Iranic people (they came about during other Aryan migrations). They could have been related to the ancestors of many Iranic people though and were almost certainly the ancestors of many Indo-Aryan people today.
I'd like to see those genetic studies.
Yes, the early Vedic people were related to the nearby Iranic people. In fact, Sanskrit was pretty similar to Avestan.
Indian no doubt.

Glad you have no doubts. I am guessing you had their birth certificates and NADRA cards checked?![]()
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Baba in those days there were two mega civilizations abutting each other. The Hindu civilization. The Persian civilization.
The Indus Valley Civilization itself was an amalgam of highland Iranic people coming down and mingling with Indic plains dwellers and herdsmen.
Persian satrapy extended significantly into what is now Pakistan.
Indian