[3] "The whole army was led to battle by the emperor of the Deriades, son of Hydaspes the watery lover in union with Astris daughter of Helios, happy in her offspring — men say that her mother was Ceto, a Naiad daughter of Oceanos — and Hydaspes crept into her bower till he flooded it, and wooed her to his embrace with conjugal waves.
The poet Nonnus in his Dionysiaca mentioned Hydaspes supported the natives in their war against the invading armies of the god Dionysos.
Both had an equal speed on two contrasted paths: Iris among the immortals and Hydaspes among the rivers.In another myth, the goddess Aphrodite was offended by Chrysippe and consequently made the princess fall in love with her own father.
Also near that part of the river which is called Pylae, there grows an herb which is very like a heliotrope, with the juice of which the people anoint their skins to prevent sunburning, and to secure them against the scorching of the excessive heat.
The natives whenever they take their virgins tardy, nail them to a wooden cross, and fling them into this river, singing at the same time in their own language a hymn to Venus [i.e Aphrodite].