Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c16.34

c16.34

"*Oxydrakai came the leading men of their cities and their provincial governors*'"¹ They were "entrusted with full powers "to conclude a treaty." The representatives of the Malloi are reported to have said that "*they were attached more than others to freedom and autonomy, and their freedom had been preserved intact from the time of Dionysius*"² (by whom the Greeks probably meant Balarāma).