Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.71
Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.71
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c26.71
They had the *Śastropajīvin* constitution. Patañjali furnishes the important detail that the Sālaṅkāyanas were composed of three sections. This datum helps us in understanding the coins of the Yaudheyas. It would not be correct to say that they were composed of three tribes. The state was founded, as the name signifies, by one Sālaṅkāyana, a descendant of Salaṅka which is not even an ancient family name. The three members of the Sālaṅkāyana Saṃgha very likely represent an amalgamation of three small state-units.