Elephants will destroy Takshila army , Puru has gone totally mad

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luckySnow

@luckySnow

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Posted: 7 years ago

#11

Originally posted by: inlieu
So this will give Alexander the sneak preview and he will realize that it's better not to take elephants into the battle and risk being trampled by them. The real Alexander didn't take elephants either but he must have known that Porus had them in his army. 😕
This is so confusing!

Real Alexander made a fool out of poras if that I can say here ...first he chose a rainy day...second he crossed Jhelum brilliantly

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ananda29

@ananda29

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Posted: 7 years ago

#12

Originally posted by: luckySnow

Real Alexander made a fool out of poras if that I can say here ...first he chose a rainy day...second he crossed Jhelum brilliantly

So confusing.

You see there is an elephant named Porus and Alexander is given this elephant together with all his relatives😆

So now Alexander is confused 😕

Omg🤣

What a show😆

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 7 years ago

#13

The main thing is that the elephants don't have any mahouts. They are going to run wild, and probably trample the Takshashila army, Alexander thus has a dress rehearsal for Hydaspes.

I had written in my last post that I expected Puru, once he had mastered that wild elephant, to turn up the next day with a 1000 of them, all trained and managed by mahouts. 😉It would appear that he is not quite there yet, as there were only about 10 of them, or assorted sizes, and there were no mahouts to be seen.

Now, the fascinating thing is that they talk of crossing the Hindukush back and forth as if it was a walk in the park!

First Alexander crosses it solo in a storm, and returns to his camp after having set foot in Bharat.

Next Chanakya presumably trundles across the Hindukush in his rattletrap rath to meet Alexander and comes back.

Now Alexander is going to cross the Hindukush to meet Ambhiraj with, presumably, only a portion of his army as he is not anticipating a battle. He apparently leave after breakfast, and hopes to be back for lunch, with Porus' head.😉

The Hindukush, however, never was a cakewalk. It is described as the last great 'killer' mountains to cross when moving between the Afghan plateau and the Indian subcontinent, named after the toll it took on anyone crossing them.

The chain of mountains is about 800 kms long and roughly 240kms. wide. The highest peak, Mount Tirich Mir, near where Alexander is now, is 25230 feet high, and the cold is intense and the snow heavy all over. It was thru the high passes of the Hindu Kush that all the invaders of the Indian subcontinent came from Central Asia, including Alexander, whose crossing of the Hindukush was very difficult and legendary.

But for Swastik and Siddharth Kumar Tewary, the Hindukush seems like a neighbourhood hillock!

We are apparently going to wade thru a whole year of these shenanigans, as this is said to be just 327 BC, and the battle of the Hydaspes was in 326. By the time we get to the end, we will have forgotten even how to laugh!

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inlieu

@inlieu

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Posted: 7 years ago

#14

Wait, I thought they had already crossed the Hindu Kush with the entire Macedonian army?

So if they are still camped on the other side of the Hindu Kush and Alexander has pre-emptively sent a message to Taxila to surrender, then why did Ambhiraj say that he was already in India?

I am confused!

So you mean we'll spend ages in this Hindu Kush back and forth? 😕

(Trying not to pull my hair out)

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sashashyam

@sashashyam

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Posted: 7 years ago

#15

Historically, they had, after an extremely difficult crossing that is now fabled.

But here, as shown clearly by Ambhirak, Alexander is still on the other side of the Hindukush.

Ambhiraj presumably says Alexander is already in India as, according to the CVs, Alexander can have breakfast in his camp and cross over to Takshashila by lunchtime, so it is just as if he was already there.

No, no ages spent in the Hindukush. They will apparate over, following the Swastik SOP. At least Jodha Akbar had none of this nonsense. When Jalal rode all the way to Malwa to discipline Adham Khan, it was clearly stated that he took 17 days, even while riding at breakneck speed.

Shyamala Aunty

Originally posted by: inlieu
Wait, I thought they had already crossed the Hindu Kush with the entire Macedonian army?
So if they are still camped on the other side of the Hindu Kush and Alexander has pre-emptively sent a message to Taxila to surrender, then why did Ambhiraj say that he was already in India?

I am confused!

So you mean we'll spend ages in this Hindu Kush back and forth? 😕
(Trying not to pull my hair out)

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inlieu

@inlieu

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Posted: 7 years ago

#16

I think the voiceover confused me a bit when they mentioned the date and indicated it was the Taxila adhaye. 😕

Aunty, I really think I need a break from this "crazy" show for a few days but I just can't resist watching the Alexander scenes, especially how he's going to react to these elephants! It doesn't seem like the final battle yet, so Alexander is already getting a sneak peak of Puru's strategy. Roxanne won't get trampled but somehow she will find a way to tie a raakhi on Puru's wrist while dodging the elephants?

Originally posted by: sashashyam
Historically, they had, after an extremely difficult crossing that is now fabled.

But here, as shown clearly by Ambhirak, Alexander is still on the other side of the Hindukush.

Ambhiraj presumably says Alexander is already in India as, according to the CVs, Alexander can have breakfast in his camp and cross over to Takshashila by lunchtime, so it is just as if he was already there.

No, no ages spent in the Hindukush. They will apparate over, following the Swastik SOP. At least Jodha Akbar had none of this nonsense. When Jalal rode all the way to Malwa to discipline Adham Khan, it was clearly stated that he took 17 days, even while riding at breakneck speed.

Shyamala Aunty

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