Porus
Πῶρος
(Πῶρος), the Greek form of the name of two Indian kings at the period of Alexander's invasion. Bohlen (Das alle Indicen, vol. i. p. 91) considers it to be a corruption of the Sanscrit "Paurusha," which signifies a hero.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.