History of India, c. 150 A.D. to 350 A.D.: Naga–Vakataka Imperial Period c18.s1.23

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§212. The only thing which could appeal to the Hindu mind represented by the historian of the Viṣṇu Purāṇa, whose political ethics never gave countenance to force and coercion, was a system like that of the Bhāraśivas, uniting in a federation of states with full individuality and individual life. The Bhāraśiva Federation was an enlargement of the Saṅgha organisation of the Hindu republics. It was a league of equals with a recognised leading power. If the Guptas had experimented that, they would have been better remembered by the Purāṇic historian. Following the historian of my country I would say: Let us remember to-day only the good deeds of the Guptas and forget their imperialism.