The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.71

v1.c25.71

To meet the Europeans, the Paurava could draw upon the resources of his own principality lying between the Hydaspes and the Acesines, full of populous villages¹. And if his immediate neighbours to east and west were hostile, the rāja of Abhisāra was inclined to make common cause with him. That prince had already, as we have seen, given shelter to the fugitives from the Swāt Valley, and now messengers went to and fro between him and the Paurava. He thought it politic however to play a double game, and sent his brother to the durbar at Takshaçilā to convey presents to Alexander and the announcement of his submission. And meanwhile he prepared to send forces to join the Indian army mustering on the Hydaspes.