Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.33

c26.33

§ 150. In the later Mālava area the Śibis also appear. The Śibis were associates of the Mālavas in the time of Alexander as a very rude people, or at least, wearing very rude dress in war, on the authority of the Greek writers. They seem to have migrated with the Mālavas into Rajputana where at Nagarī near Chitor their coins are found. They are struck in the name of ‘the Country (or Nation) of the Śibis of Madhyamikā’ (‘*Majhimikāya Śibi Janapadasa*’.)³