State and Government in Ancient India c21.s1.3

c21.s1.3

Till recently some of the larger Indian feudatory states like those of Hyderabad, Baroda and Kolhapur had their own feudatories; the same was the case in ancient India. Thus king Mātṛivishṇu of Eran (*c.* 480 A. D.) was a subordinate of king Suraśmichandra, who in his turn was a feudatory of the emperor Budhagupta.¹ In 813 A. D. Govinda III was the Rāshtrakūṭa emperor; his nephew Karkka was his feudatory, ruling over southern Gujarat and Sri-Budhavarsha of Salukika family was governing Siharikā 12 as a sub-feudatory, to which position he was raised by the younger brother of Karkka.² It will be thus seen that the feudatories could create their own subfeudatories, probably with the previous permission of the emperor.