Abhisara

Abisares (or Abhisara;[1] in Greek Ἀβισάρης), called Embisarus (Ἐμβίσαρος,) by Diodorus,[2] was a Kasmira king of Abhira[3] descent whose territory lay in the river Hydaspes beyond the mountains. On his death in 325 BC, Alexander the Great appointed Abisares' son as his successor.[4][5][6][7]

Alexander the Great

Abisares sent embassies of submission to Alexander the Great and Alexander allowed him to retain his kingdom with considerable additions.[8][9]

Onesicritus said that Abisares had two huge snakes and Alexander had a great desire to see them.[10]

Kingdom

Aurel Stein equates the Hazara region, frequently identified as the ancient Urasa with Abhisara.[11][12] However, Stein identifies the kingdom of Abhisara with the tract of the lower and middle hills between the Vitasta (Jhelum) and Chadrabhaga (Chenab) including the state of Rajapuri (Rajauri) in Kasmira.[13][14][15] Old kingdom of Abhisara was basically situated in the Poonch, Rajauri and Nowshera districts of Jammu and Kashmir.[16][17][18]

See also

References

  1. ^ Chisholm, Hugh (1910). "Alexander III (Alexander the Great)". Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition. Vol. 1.
  2. ^ Diodorus, Bibliotheca, xvii. 90
  3. ^ Enthoven, Reginald Edward (1990). The Tribes and Castes of Bombay. ISBN 9788120606302.
  4. ^ Waldemar Heckel: Who’s who in the age of Alexander the Great. Prosopography of Alexander’s empire. Blackwell, Oxford 2006, ISBN 978-1-4051-1210-9 (excerpt online).
  5. ^ Strabo Geogr., Geographica Book 15, chapter 1, section 28, line 11
  6. ^ Διοδ. ΙΖ, 87
  7. ^ Curt, VIII, 43, 13. XLVII, 1. IX, 1, 7, X, 3, 20
  8. ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Abisares
  9. ^ A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Porus
  10. ^ Aelian, Characteristics of Animals, 16.39
  11. ^ Heckel, Waldemar; Tsouras, Peter G. (30 June 2021). Who's Who in the Age of Alexander and his Successors: From Chaironeia to Ipsos (338-301 BC). Greenhill Books. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-78438-651-1.
  12. ^ (Mahabharata, Sabha-Parva,Ch.27;JASD.(1852)p. 234)
  13. ^ Encyclopaedia of ancient Indian geography By Subodh Kapoor-page-3
  14. ^ Kapoor, Subodh (2002). Encyclopaedia of Ancient Indian Geography. ISBN 9788177552980.
  15. ^ Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, v. 8, 20, 29; Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, viii. 12-14, ix. 1, x. 1
  16. ^ Political History of Ancient India: From the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty, 1953, p 248, Hemchandra Raychaudhuri, University of Calcutta
  17. ^ The Mahābhārata, Its Genesis and Growth: A Statistical Study, 1986, p 115, M. R. Yardi, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute - Mahābhārata; Military History of India, 1980, p 38, Hemendra Chandra Kar - History
  18. ^ Journal of Indian History, 1969, p 123, University of Kerala Dept. of History, University of Allahabad Dept. of Modern Indian History, University of Travancore, University of Kerala - India.

Other sources

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Abisares". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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