Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c7.s1.t10.8
Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c7.s1.t10.8
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⁶² Rāya Sū., 203 f ; Kauṭilya gives some traditional names of queens who had conspired against their husbands and which had cost them their lives. Kauṭilya asks the king to guard himself from his queens. Armed women generally guarded palace and the king entered it if he was personally satisfied of the queen's purity Hence it was necessary to wean her from the undue influence of ascetics, buffoons and public women , Arthaśāstra, p. 40.
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- Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit
- Rāyapaseṇaijja — Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit