Hydaspes

Etymology
Borrowed from, proposed to have been borrowed from , from +  to explain the development -sp- instead of -st-, but this has no basis in any attested names for the river.

Proper noun

 * 1)  The river Jhelum, on the Indian subcontinent, especially as the location of a battle fought by Alexander the Great against King Porus in 326 BCE.
 * 2) * 1796,, The History of America, 1812, 1st American Edition, Volume 1, page 454,
 * When Alexander marched along the banks of the Hydaspes and AncesineAcesines [sic], two of the rivers which fall into the Indus, he observed that there were many crocodiles in those rivers, and that the country produced beans of the same species with those which were common in Egypt. From these circumstances, he concluded that he had discovered the source of the Nile, and prepared a fleet to sail down the Hydaspes to Egypt.
 * 1) * 1813, John Rooke (translator),, Arrian's History of the expedition of Alexander the Great, J. Davis, 2nd Edition, page 221,
 * Alexander having now made ready a fleet on the banks of the river Hydaspes, manned it with all the Phœnicians Cyprians, and Egyptians which he found in his camp, choosing the sailors and rowers out of such as he knew to be expert in sea affairs.
 * 1)  A god associated with the river.
 * 1)  A god associated with the river.

Etymology
From, itself from , also proposed to have been borrowed from , from +  to explain the development -sp- instead of -st-, but this has no basis in any attested names for the river.

Proper noun

 * 1)  where Alexander the Great fought the battle against Porus, now the Jhelum river.