Poras himself came to receive her, and asked, “Why have you come? You could have informed me – I could have come to your camp.” When Alexander’s wife came she was received just like a queen should be received. It was the time when, in India, sisters would tie a small thread around the wrist of their brothers – and it was called rakshabandhan, a pledge, a promise: “You will defend me.” Alexander had sent his wife to meet Poras – he was waiting on the other side of the river. It was very appropriate for Poras to say this, because his defeat was not really a defeat his defeat was through the utter cunningness of Alexander. There was a great silence for a moment in the court of Alexander. Poras said, “Is that a question to be asked? An emperor should be treated like an emperor.” When another king, Poras, was defeated by Alexander the Great, and was brought before him, chained, Alexander asked him, “How should you be treated?” He was taken prisoner, handcuffed, chained – which was absolutely against the Eastern way of life.
Prithviraj had become old, and having fought his whole life, his armies were tattered, in ruins. He gathered his army again, and the nineteenth time he conquered Prithviraj. If this spider was not discouraged after eighteen failures, why should I be?” That gave the idea to Mohammed Gauri: “I should make the effort at least one more time. It fell exactly eighteen times, but the nineteenth time it succeeded in making a web. Sitting there, he had nothing else to do, so he watched the spider. When Mohammed Gauri was defeated the eighteenth time, all his armies were killed, he was hiding in a cave and thinking, “What to do now?” There he saw a spider making its web.
He is such a shameless fellow that even after being defeated dozens of times, he comes again!” It is enough that we force him to go back.
He has just a small country by the side of India you could have taken his country and finished! Otherwise, he is a constant worry.”īut Prithviraj said, “That would be against the dignity of my country. And you have been victorious so many times – you could have gone a little further. It is better to finish him once and for all. That man will gather armies again in a few years, and again he will invade the country. Prithviraj was told again and again, “This is too much.
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