Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c39.5

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² His caste is discussed by me in the **Brahmin Empire** (1912) a revised edition of which is published in JBORS, 257—265. For Pāṇini IV. 3. 117 on Śuṅga; Patañjali VI. 2. 130 on brāhmaṇarājya and Tārānātha p. 81 on Brāhmaṇa Koenig Pushyamitra. For connection between the **Mānava-dharma-śāstra** and **Pushyamitra** see my Tagore Lectures on Manu and Yâjñavalkya I. In the time of the Mânava code the Parthians were neighbours of India but the country of which Mathurâ was, capital was yet orthodox; the country of the Mlechchhas was still beyond India proper. This indicates the period about 150 B. C.