Alexander the Great aive mambo wehumambo hwekare hwechiGiriki hweMacedon muzana ramakore rechina BC. Anoyeukwa zvakanyanya nekuda kwehondo yake huru yehondo, iyo yakagara kwenguva yakawanda yekutonga kwake, uye yakatungamirira pakusikwa kwehumwe hwehumambo hukuru hwepasirese. Husingakundiki muhondo, kutonga kwaAlexander pakupedzisira kwakatambanukira kubva kuGreece kusvika kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero kweIndia uye kudzika kuchamhembe kwakadziva kumabvazuva kweAfrica.
Mukati mehondo yake yehondo kuburikidza neAsia neAfrica, Alexander Mukuru akapupurira ― uye zvechokwadi akagadzira ― zvinhu zvikuru uye zvinotyisa. Kuwa kwemaguta nehumambo, "kuurayiwa" kwe "vose" vanhu, uye kunyangwe ― kana mishumo ichizotendwa ― dhiragoni!
Muna 330 BC, mushure mekunge Alexander Mukuru arwisa India, akadzosa mishumo yekuona shato huru yairidza muridzo ichigara mubako, mainamatwa nevanhu sevamwari.
Mumwe wevakuru vemauto aAlexander Mukuru ainzi Onesicritus akataura kuti mambo weIndia Abisarus aichengeta nyoka dzaiva pakati pemamita 120 ne210 kureba. Vatongi veGreece vakazotevera vanonzi vakadzosa shato dziri vapenyu kubva kuEthiopia.
Alexander paakakanda dzimwe nzvimbo dzeIndia mumhirizhonga akatora dzimwe akasangana neNyoka pakati pedzimwe mhuka dzakawanda yaigara mubako uye yaionekwa seinoera nemaIndia aiipa ruremekedzo rukuru uye rwekutenda mashura.
Naizvozvo, maIndia akaita zvose zvaanogona achikumbira Alexander kuti asabvumira munhu upi noupi kurwisa Nyoka; uye akabvumirana nechido chavo. Zvino hondo yakati ichipfuura nepabako uye "yakonzera ruzha", Nyoka yakabva yangozviziva. Iyo ine, iwe unoziva, iyo “kunzwa kwakapinza uye kuona kwakapinza kwemhuka dzose”.
Zvinonzi chikara chakaburitsa musoro mubako uye “vakaridza mheterwa nokuhwihwidza zvine simba zvokuti vose vakavhunduka uye vakavhiringidzika”. Uye zvechokwadi, maererano netsanangudzo yaAelianus, chisikwa chingadai chave chichityisa kuona.
Chikamu chinooneka chenyoka chete “yakashumwa kuti yakasvika makubhiti makumi manomwe”, yakakasharara yakaenzana nemamita 32 kana kuti 105 tsoka pakureba. Muviri wayo wakakura wakasara wakasara mubako.
Chero zvazvingava maziso ayo anonzi akanga akaenzana nenhoo huru, yakatenderera yeMakedhonia.
―Aelianus, Pamusoro peNature of Animals, Bhuku #XV, Chitsauko 19-23, c.210-230.
Nyoka refu pasi rose ine uturu, King Cobra, imwe yemhuka dzakadai inofamba mumasango eIndia. Nyoka dzakura dzinogona kukura kusvika pakati pemamita matatu kusvika mashanu pakureba. Kunyangwe ingave kureba kwekutya kune ani zvake, zvisinei, haina kukura se "hofori yenyoka" iyo Alexander nevarume vake vakatarisana nayo. Tichifunga izvozvo, chii chakasangana namambo wekare mukati menhimbe yake muIndia? Akaona shato here?
