[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) › c11.67 # The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c11.67 The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c11.67 - **Language:** English ### [c11.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11.67) If the king was without a male heir, then if he had a daughter, his son-in-law became heir to the throne; the son-in-law he sought either among his own kinsmen or among the members of another royal house.¹ In the Mudupâṇi Jâtaka (II. 323 sq.) the king makes his nephew his successor and explains to his ministers, "After my death my nephew will become king, my daughter will become his eldest consort (aggamahesî)." Later he changes his mind and informs his ministers that he will give his nephew another wife and marry his daughter into another royal house, in order to have as many kinsmen as possible. This intention is, however, frustrated by the cunning of these two lovers who at last carried out their desire and so we do not know how the succession would have taken place if the king had married his daughter to a foreign prince; probably, the latter would have received the uparajja with the daughter. - [Previous: c11.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11.66) - [Next: c11.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11.68) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11) ## Linked texts (1) - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka.262) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.fick-1897.c11.67) · Pramāṇa