Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c16.53

c16.53

Alexander made peace with them having received fifty of the foremost citizens who had come as ambassadors "under the belief that they would be treated with all proper courtesy." It is stated by Diodorus that the embassy was sent on the Ambashṭhas' having "adopted the advice of their elders not to fight." This probably indicates that their democratic constitution allowed an Upper House, of Elders.