Invoking the sacred fire...

Book 5To the Ends of the East
Porus and the Battle of the Hydaspes
In the Punjab monsoon, Alexander crosses the flooding Hydaspes by night to face King Porus and his two hundred war elephants. Porus, defeated but unbowed, asks only to be treated 'like a king' — and keeps his kingdom. At the river Hyphasis, the army that conquered the world refuses to take one more step east.