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[5] This made him angry. He set fire to the city and burned up most of the inhabitants with it.1 The remaining natives to the number of three thousand had fled to the citadel, whence they appealed for mercy with suppliant branches. Alexander pardoned them.

1 Curtius 9.4.6-7, stating that the Indians burned themselves up to avoid subjection.

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