Maller

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The Maller (Greek Μαλλοί; old Indian Mālava ) were an Indian tribe in ancient times at the confluence of the rivers Hydaspes , Hydraotes and Akesines , in today's Punjab . The Mallers owned several fortified cities in this area. They were considered very bellicose. Together with the allied Oxydrakern (Kshudrakas) they were subjugated by Alexander the Great after fierce resistance . Alexander was badly wounded in storming a city of Mallers.

It is believed that they were the ancient Indian Malava who later moved to the east and there epigraphically and numismatically for the 2nd century BC. Are proven in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh . Her name is preserved there as Malwa to this day .

literature

  • Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta: The Mālavas . Calcutta Sanskrit College, Calcutta 1966.
  • Franz F. Schwarz: Malloi. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 915.