Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c11.s2.5
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c11.s2.5
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c11.s2.5
The ideal persists throughout our period and inspired poets and political philosophers who spoke of the thousand *yojanas* (leagues) of land that stretch from the Himālayas to the sea as the proper domain of a single universal emperor (*chakravarti-kshetra*) and eulogised monarchs who protected the earth decked with the Ganges, as with a pearl necklace, adorned with the Himavat and the Vindhya, as with two earrings, and robed with a swinging girdle in the shape of the rocking oceans.