Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c32.s1.74

c32.s1.74

(i) The use of *Yukta* which is only known to the Maurya times, and the ‘geographical horizon’ in laying down the policy towards the republics can only refer to the Maurya times. In the first century B. C. and the 1st or 2nd century A. C. there was no power, no ‘king’ (for whom Kauṭilya wrote the Saṅgha Vṛitta policy) who had from Videha to Afghanistan under him.