State and Government in Ancient India c23.s5.10

c23.s5.10

Records of our period show that queens normally took no part in the administration. They are sometimes seen making land-grants, but usually they did so with the permission of their husbands the ruling kings. Thus when queen Nayanakelidevī of Govindachandra wanted to make the grant of a village to the royal priest, she had to get the sanction of her husband.¹