Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.3

c26.3

§ 142. The Yaudheyas were one of the older class. They not only survive the Mauryan empire but also the Satraps and the Kushāns. There is evidence of their long life both in the coins struck by them and the inscriptions making adverse references to them. The atmosphere of the Second Century A.C. is full of their military glory. Rudradāman in the second century A.C. describes them as *"rendered proud, as they were, by having manifested their title of heroes among all Kshatriyas"* and *"who cannot be subjugated"*.¹