The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c12.45

c12.45

With the offices enumerated above, the great class of rájabhoggas is in no way exhausted; apart from the fact that even the Jâtakas do not touch all the circumstances of public life—they speak, for example, almost nothing of the gradations of rank in the army—it is to be reflected that the apparatus of government, although all threads of the centralised State government were spun round this one point, was not confined in the great monarchies within the capital of the kingdom; in order to hold such a vast territory, as the Magadha kingdom, under the sway of a single ruler, the king's power must have been represented by officers everywhere in the small towns and in the villages.