Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.105

c41.105

He recommends parihāra in famines, and counts the erection of irrigation works as a case where anugraha ought to be granted.¹ Aśoka in his Pillar Proclamations says that the Rājūkas or ruling ministers, made independent by him, were to make anugrahas to the Jānapada body (§318). Rudradāman calls his restoration of the irrigation lake,—Sudarśana—an anugraha in favour of the Paura-Jānapadas.²