Editing Porus (section)

=== Sourasenis ===
[[Quintus Curtius Rufus]] mentions Porus' vanguard soldiers carrying a banner of "Herakles" during the face-off with Alexander.<ref name=":2" /> Accordingly, [[Ishwari Prasad]] and a few other scholars argue that Porus was a [[Shurasena]].<ref>''A Comprehensive History of India: The Mauryas & Satavahanas,'' p. 383, edited by K.A. Nilakanta Sastri, Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri, Bharatiya Itihas Parishad, Published by Orient Longmans, 1992, Original from the University of California</ref>{{efn|Iswhari Prashad and others following his lead, found further support for this conclusion in the fact that a section of [[Shurasena]]s were supposed to have migrated westwards to Punjab and modern [[Afghanistan]] from Mathura and [[Dvārakā]], after Krishna walked to heaven and had established new kingdoms there.<ref>"Actually, the legend reports a westward march of the Yadus (MBh. 1.13.49, 65) from Mathura, while the route from Mathura to Dvaraka southward through a desert. This part of the Krsna legend could be brought to earth by digging at Dvaraka, but also digging at Darwaz in Afghanistan, whose name means the same thing and which is the more probable destination of refugees from Mathura..." ''Introduction to the Study of Indian History,'' p. 125,  D D Kosambi, Publisher: [S.l.] : Popular Prakashan, 1999</ref>}} This identification is based on the fact that multiple Greek histories — [[Indica (Arrian)|Indica]] by [[Arrian]], [[Geographica]] by [[Strabo]], and [[Bibliotheca historica#Book II: Asia|Bibliotheca historica]] by [[Diodorus Siculus]] — note [[Megasthenes]]{{efn|He had traveled to India, after Porus had been already supplanted by [[Chandragupta Maurya]].}} to have described an Indian tribe called ''Sourasenoi'' who worshiped one "Herakles" and originated from the lands of [[Mathura]] and [[Yamuna]].<ref name=":2">''Krishna: a Sourcebook,'' p. 5, Edwin Francis Bryant, Oxford University Press US, 2007</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite journal|last=Puskás|first=Ildikó|date=1990|title=Megasthenes and the "Indian Gods" Herakles and Dionysos|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41163978|journal=Mediterranean Studies|volume=2|pages=39–47|jstor=41163978|issn=1074-164X|access-date=12 August 2021|archive-date=12 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812055059/https://www.jstor.org/stable/41163978|url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|The Greeks often chronicled foreign gods in terms of their own divinities; multiple scholars have argued "Herakles" to mean "Hari-Krishna", the closest mythological equivalent.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":5" /> This identification also fits with the geography, Mathura being the epicenter of the Krshna cult. However, there is no evidence of Krishna worship as early as the 4th century BC.<ref name=":5" /> Some modern scholars equate "Herakles" to [[Indra]] but this identification is not widely accepted either.<ref name=":5" />}}