Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c19.s4.14
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c19.s4.14
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c19.s4.14
In Southern India we come across titles of a semi-religious character like *Kshemarāja*,² *Dharma-Mahārājā-dhirāja* and *Dharma-Yuvamahārāja*,³ assumed by pious defenders of Indian faiths, engaged in upholding *dharma* as practised by the ancient teachers and law-givers, and purging it of the evils of the Kali Age, probably to distinguish themselves from the unbelieving foreigners and barbarian outcastes of the North-West.