English historian James Tod considered Maharaja Shurasena to be an ancestor of king Porus.other scholars have also linked Porus to the tribe tracing its origin from Yaduvanshi King Shurasena.James Tod, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan The Suraseni of Methoras (descendants of the Soor Sen of Mathura) were all Purus, the Prasioi of Megasthenes.How invaluable such remnants of ancient race of Harikula! How refreshing to the mind yet to discover, amidst the ruins on the Yamuna, Hecules (Baldeva, god of strength) retaining his club and lion's hide, standing on his pedestal at Baldeo, and yet worshipped by Suraseni! This was name given to a large tract of country round Mathura, or rather round Surpura, the ancient capital founded by Surasena, the grandfather of the Indian brother-deities, Krishna and Baldeva ' Of this Alexander's historians made Porus. 'King Porus.Puru became the patronymic of this branch of the Lunar race. Hercules Battling the Nemean Lion.2nd–1st century B.C.Pakistan (ancient region of Gandhara).The Nemean lion was a vicious monster in Greek mythology that lived at Nemea. He mentions the devotees of Heracles and Dionysus but he does not mention Buddhists, something that gives support to the theory that the latter religion was not widely known before the reign of Ashoka.'.Vassiliades, Demetrios, 'Greeks and Buddhism Historical Contacts in the Development of a Universal religion'.The Eastern Buddhist. Particularly important are his comments on the religions of the Indians. Scholars place it before 298 BC, the date of Chandragupta's death.At the beginning of his Indika, he refers to the older Indians who know about the prehistoric arrival of Dionysus and Hercules in India, which was a story very popular amongst the Greeks during the Alexandrian period. However the exact date of his embassy is uncertain. He was born in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of the Seleucid dynasty possibly to Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra, India.

350 – 290 BC) was a Greek ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period, author of the work Indika. 'Megasthenes, writing in the early 3rd century BC, mentions Mathura as a great city under the name Μέθορα (Méthora).Megasthenes (ca. 350 BC) mentions the devotees of Hercules (Shiva) and Dionysus (Krishna or Indra) in India

LORD SHIVA'S STATUE IN RISHIKESH in the foothills of the Himalayas in northern India.

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