Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c13.s1.16
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c13.s1.16
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c13.s1.16
The organisation of the empire into Satrapies served as a model to several succeeding dynasties, and was given a wider extension in India by the Śakas and the Kushāns in the centuries immediately preceding and succeeding the Christian era. The *Deśa-goptṛi* of the Gupta Age was the lineal successor of the Satrap (*Kshatra-pāvan*) of earlier epochs.