[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Administrative Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929) › c8.s1.46 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s1.46 Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s1.46 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.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; - [Previous: c8.s1.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s1.45) - [Next: c8.s1.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s1.47) - [Up: c8.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s1) ## Cites (2) - [Bhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s1.46) · Pramāṇa