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'''Abisares''' (or '''Abhisara''';<ref name="EB">{{cite encyclopedia |last = Chisholm |first = Hugh |authorlink = Hugh Chisholm |title = Alexander III (Alexander the Great) |encyclopedia = [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition]] |volume = 1 |year = 1910}}</ref> in [[Greek language|Greek]] Αβισαρης), called Embisarus (Εμβισαρος) by [[Diodorus Siculus|Diodorus]],<ref>Diodorus, ''Bibliotheca'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Diod.+17.90.1 xvii. 90]</ref> was an Indian king beyond the river [[Hydaspes]], whose territory lay in the mountains, sent embassies to [[Alexander the Great]] both before and after the conquest of [[King Porus|Porus]] in 326 BCE, although inclined to espouse the side of the latter.<ref>Flavius Arrianus Hist., Phil., Alexandri anabasis<br /> Book 5, chapter 20, section 5, line 4 <br> ανδρον ἔπεμψε, χρήματά τε κομίζοντα καὶ ἐλέφαντας<br /> τεσσαράκοντα δῶρον Ἀλεξάνδρῳ.</ref> Alexander not only allowed him to retain his kingdom, but increased it, and on his death in 325 BCE, Alexander appointed Abisares' son as his successor.<ref>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}} ([http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9781405112109_chunk_g97814051121096_ss1-3 excerpt online]).</ref><ref>Strabo Geogr., Geographica Book 15, chapter 1, section 28, line 11</ref><ref>Διοδ. ΙΖ, 87</ref><ref>Curt, VIII, 43, 13. XLVII, 1. IX, 1, 7, X, 3, 20</ref><br />
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*[[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]] (editor); ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20050728143337/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0011.html "Abisares"], [[Boston]], (1867)<br />
*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}} ([http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9781405112109_chunk_g97814051121096_ss1-2 excerpt online])<br />
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