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Vaid (Mohyal Brahmin)
Vaid is a surname (family name) and a clan that directly descends from King Porus Vaid, who famously blocked Alexander the Great's advance in 326 BCE at a ford on the Hydaspes River, and ended Alexander's career of conquest. While the clan belongs to the Mohyal Brahmin community, Vaids, a.k.a. Hussaini Brahmins, maintain deeply syncretic racial, ethnic, cultural and historical ties with Persia and Islam Notably, Shahnameh, The Persian Book of Kings, makes close to fifty references to King Porus Vaid, referred to in the Shahnameh as "Foor". Poor or Foor is the Persian version of Porus (Greek). And Shahnamah remembers him in glowing words. Pakhtun parents, perhaps, name their sons after Porus but in its Persian/Afghan version, e.g. Por/Pur+dil According to Mohyal lore, a number of famous ancestors fought on Imam Husain's side at Karbala and died in the battle. The community now bears the legacy of that mythic lineage. Mohyal Brahmins are Saraswat Brahmins of Punjabi descent, who originally belonged to the Ghandhara region of Ancient India, although it is now a region in eastern-Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The community now bears the legacy of that mythic lineage. Mohyal Brahmins are Saraswat Brahmins of Punjabi descent, who originally belonged to the Ghandhara region of Ancient India, although it is now a region in eastern-Afghanistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.