Local Government in Ancient India c16.3

c16.3

In Mr. Venkayya's opinion the mention by Megasthenes of six boards of five members each, to which the evidence of the Uttaramallūr inscriptions closely corresponds, favours the supposition that the system was carried into Southern India by the Aryan immigrants, and that slight alterations probably were made to suit the conditions of the south. The same hypothesis will serve to explain the lateness of date of the South Indian evidence bearing on the local bodies which seem to have owed their origin to the transplantation of the earlier North Indian institutions.