Public Administration in Ancient India c4.20

c4.20

A considerable amount of incidental information is supplied by the Buddhist and Jaina Sūtras, the Jātakas, the Milinda Panha, and other religious works of the two sects. Although the information obtainable from this source is small in quantity, the fact that the object of composition of these works was religious and not political lends to it a greater degree of reliability than is possessed by some of the other sources.