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# Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c40.12

Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c40.12

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### [c40.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c40.12)

³ Probably not so much religion as philosophy. The difference between the two, as Megasthenes describes, was very slight. Aśoka certainly made it a religion and a world-religion.

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