[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897) › c11.14 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c11.14 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c11.14 - **Language:** English ### [c11.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11.14) If the king follows these prescriptions as a rule of conduct, this necessarily takes much from his character as an absolute despot. As a matter of fact, with the gradual spread of Buddhism, the teachings of Buddha came to be not without influence upon the conduct of kings : Candragupta’s grandson Asoka who ruled in the third century B. C., “the god-beloved king Piyadasi,” as he calls himself in his stone edicts, shows himself here as a ruler who in several respects comes close to the ideal picture given in the Jâtakas. - [Previous: c11.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11.13) - [Next: c11.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11.15) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11.14) · Pramāṇa