The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c23.20

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¹ The notion of toleration being a royal duty still survives. Bühler was 'told in Rājputāna, a rājā ought not to be exclusive in the point of worship, but favour all the various sects among his subjects' (*Ind. Ant.*, vi, 183). This principle has been acted on frequently. The *Arthaśāstra* goes so far as to prescribe that the king who has acquired a new territory 'should follow the people in their faith with which they celebrate their national, religious, and congregational festivals or amusements' (Bk. xiii, ch. 5).