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confusion that now took place cannot be conceived or described : 

 the wounded elephants, without riders, raging through the field, and 

 spreading dismay and death wherever they came ; horses and men 

 tolled over each other on the bloody plain, and struggling in the 

 agonies of death ; the crash of chariots, the shouts of the victor, and 

 the shrieks of the expiring. Those, that had an opportunity, sought, 

 safety in precipitate flight, but by far the greater part of that vast 

 army was cut to pieces ; the numbers killed that day, on the side of 

 Porus, amounting, according to Arrian, to near twenty thousand 

 infantry and three thousand horse ; with the loss of all the chariots 

 and elephants ! The loss on the side of Alexander was very low in 

 proportion, but still higher than in any battle with Darius, being 

 eighty of the infantry and two hundred and thirty of the cavalry *. 

 Diodorus, with greater probability, states that loss to have been seven 

 hundred infantry : in the number of cavalry slain he agrees with our 

 author -J-. 



With respect to the Indian monarch himself, he was con- 

 spicuously seen, during the whole of the engagement, mounted on 

 an elephant of uncommon magnitude and courage, issuing orders to 

 his generals with the utmost coolness, and exposing himself, with 

 the most daring intrepidity, in whatever quarter the rage of battle 

 was most violent. Foiled in one part of the field, Porus and the 

 veteran bands that ever attended and guarded his person, renewed 

 the contest with fiercer fury in another. While a troop could be 

 kept together, or a battalion rallied, Porus was at the head of that 

 troop and of that battalion. Majestic in person and on a majestic 

 animal, he was the admiration of every eye, and, at the same time, 

 the object of every hostile dart. But his coat of mail was of excellent 

 fabrication, and of a texture so firm, that the arrow and the javelin 



* Arrian, lib. v. cap. 18. t Died. Sic. lib. xvii. p. 469. 



