THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE BEHIND RAKSHA BANDHAN

“Treat me as a king would treat another king.”
Emperor Porus of Purava kingdom spoke with pride as his hands and legs were chained but the head held high. He walked towards King Alexander of Macedonia, as a surrenderer, after giving him a tough fight, in the battle of Hydaspes (on the bank of river Jhelum, now in Punjab Pakistan) in 326 BC.


