Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c28.32

c28.32

This *smallness* was the very weakness of the polity. Nations and states which remain small, whatever their virtues, are not allowed to exist. Large states which developed greedy fangs, devoured up small sovereignties. The Mālavas and the Yaudheyas who survived mighty empires and great conquerors, were large territorial units. They must have extended their laws and rights like the Lichchhavis and Madras to the arena of their expansion.¹ They, on account of their largeness, avoided the fate of their early contemporaries of smaller stature.