Public Administration in Ancient India c10.32

c10.32

³ Vide Epigraphia Zeylanica and the Mahāvamsa. Three other queens reigned in Ceylon, namely, Anulā, Sivalī, and Kalyāṇavatī. Queen-consort Sūryamatī was the virtual ruler of Kasmir during the reign of her husband Ananta. Megasthenes speaks of the Pāṇḍyas as “a race ruled by women.”