The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c21.58

c21.58

The central regions seem to have been governed directly from Pātaliputra under the king’s personal supervision. The outlying provinces were administered by viceroys, of whom, apparently, there were at least four. The ruler of the northwest was stationed at Taxila, and his jurisdiction may be assumed to have included the Panjāb, Sind, the countries beyond the Indus, and Kashmīr. The eastern territories, including the conquered kingdom of Kalinga, were governed by a viceroy stationed at Tosali, the exact position of which has not been ascertained. The western provinces of Mālwa, Gujarāt, and Kāthiāwār were under the government of a prince, whose head-quarters were at the ancient city of Ujjain; and the southern provinces, beyond the Narbadā, were ruled by the fourth viceroy.¹