The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c11.84

c11.84

The handing over of the viceroyalty (uparājja) to the eldest son seems generally to take place after the completion of his studies (I. 259; III. 123, 407); often power was made over immediately by the father to the prince, returned home from the University (IV. 96, 316; V. 177). Whilst we read in the Kummâsapiṇḍa Jātaka (III. 407) that the prince Brahmadatta after he returned from Takkasilâ was made uparājan by his father, to whom he had to furnish a proof of his ability and who was pleased with his performances, and that after the death of his father he succeeded him on the throne, it is said in the Culasutasoma Jâtaka of Prince Sutasoma that after his return from Takkasilâ he received from his father the white umbrella (setacchatta, V. 177), the emblem of royalty, and ruled justly.