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Porus, king of the area between the Hydaspes and the Acesines rivers, in India, met Alexander the Great at the Battle of the Hydaspes River in June 326 B.C. Porus brought war elephants with him that terrified the Greeks and their horses. In time, Alexander's troops gained the upper hand and the elephants stampeded their own troops. King Porus surrendered to Alexander

Indians are a peculiar race. India ignores and forgets.[7] “It is a conspiracy of silence.” “India remained unchanged. The wounds of battle were quickly healed: the ravaged fields smile again.[8] “No Indian author, Hindu or Jain or Buddhist makes even the faintest allusion to Alexander or his deeds,” asserted V.A. Smith, and he quotes with approval the lines by Matthew Arnold:


We next come to one of the most interesting facts of history. Chandra Gupta Maurya, the first Emperor of India, while yet a boy, had seen Alexander “the invincible splendid man from the West.” “Later on when he became a great King, Chandra Gupta worshipped Alexander among his Gods.”[26] It appears a curious fact that a Hindu King paid divine honours to a foreign prince whom he had himself beheld.

Re: # 5

You need to read more about Buddhism as a philosophical system before you regurgitate the usual Paki Dawah propaganda!!

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TNT is the dar-ul-harbic view of cultural "identity" so clear in the famous remark of Jinnah that the two nations exists in every gali and muhallahs of muslim neighbourhood!!
The very notion of a "pureland" is based upon exclusion of naji idoaltors.

Mahmood sahib,

I have heard a theory that the Muslim word for statue "But" is derived from the fact that the first statues they saw was that of Buddha (But was corrupted form of Buddha). Is that true or only fanciful?

Mystic,

(overwhelmed by hinduism continuence & INCORPORATION in 4th&5th century c.e. by hindu renniasence..)

As far as incorporation is concerned, you would no doubt be aware that Buddha became an avatar of Vishnu.

Laddu,

What is wrong with the TNT?

Regards

jainism, budhism and sikhism did come into being to relieve hinduism.Of ITS CASTE system and contributed by influence to Hinduism and in turn became minority overwhelmed by hinduism continuence & INCORPORATION in 4th&5th century c.e. by hindu renniasence..

For Buddha, Pratittya Samutpada is the basis of "Samsara" and is one of the "Sats" that humanity must admit. The entire philosophy of Buddhism is based upon the notion of "Samsara" and the cycle of existence that gets unleashed due to karmas and sankalpas. Violence begets its fruits and even Mohamamad must have suffered the fruits of his violent karmas. There is NO intercession by any Allah.

Pakistani situation is a clear example of pratitya samutpada - the hatred of TNT come back to haunt the very proponents. The more Pakistan Islamizes, the more it gets farther from the very philosophy of Buddhism that existed on its soil till it was decimated in typical Islamic genocide.

Any way , thanks for showing those unbroken "buts" that were not disfigured by mistake by the zealots who conquered that region.

Good Pictures but you are an inaccurate at one place.

The Buddha did not achieve Nirvana during his fasting. Rather, he stopped fasting after he heard a music teacher teach his pupil in the boat with this saying, "If you tighten the string too hard, it will break, and if you dont tighten it enough, it will not play".

What happened to this great religion where it originated

The lesser vehicle in Buddhism is the Hinayana, perhaps Nahayana was typo. Nice pictures.