Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s1.46

c8.s1.46

Usually each was endowed with a small territorial unit over which he was the head but still answerable to the monarch. The position was equal to that of a Governor or a Viceroy of a province of the modern days. This is evident both from the *Rāmāyaṇa* and the *Bhāgavata Purāṇa*. In the former Bharata's two sons were given rulerships of Takṣaśīla and Puṣkalāvati, two small states in the country of Gandhāra; Satrughna's two sons to be the governors of Mathura and Vidiśa;