[Robotbeat]

Doubtless yours is a text from the Indian perspective while the parent's narrative is from the Greek/Macedonian/Western perspective. I don't have standing to say which is more or less likely, but both are probably engaged in some amount of motivated reasoning or selective memory (hence the continuing mystery of Alexander's death).

[Koshkin]

One has to realize that historical recordings have rarely, if ever, been impartial. If you have two opposing accounts, the truth, with some probability, is somewhere in between. We will never know for sure though.