The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.147

v1.c25.147

The terror of the European host had now broken the spirits of the Mālavas, and their surviving headmen, as well as the headmen of the Kshudrakas, came to the camp, tendering their submission. According to the Greek historian, they urged that their crime was after all the love of freedom, but that, Alexander being apparently more than man, they were ready to obey any governor he might appoint and pay tribute. They sent a thousand of their best men as hostages. When the armament continued its progress down stream, Alexander left the Mālavas and Kshudrakas attached to the satrapy of Philip; but the thousand hostages he sent back to their homes.