The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.110

v1.c25.110

The rāja of Abhisāra, who had been too late to help the Paurava, thought well to renew his assurances of loyalty to Alexander. A body of envoys from Kashmīr, headed by the rāja's brother, arrived in camp with presents which included forty elephants. They would also seem to have brought back to Alexander his envoy Nicocles, whom the rāja had retained by him, so long as the issue of the conflict with Porus was doubtful². Alexander, however, could now be satisfied with nothing short of the rāja's own presence, and gave the envoys to understand that it would be as well for him to come, or Alexander might come to look for him.