Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.121

c41.121

§ 278. We find the Paura receiving communication from the sovereign to execute measures of moment which properly belonged to the jurisdiction of the executive government or Daṇḍa. Tishya-rakshitā, queen of Aśoka, sent the letter which she forged under the name of the Emperor and sealed it with his ivory seal, to the Paura of Takshaśilā. The story as related in the Divyāvadāna may or may not be correct. But the story would not have been detailed in this way if the procedure of sending a royal communication of the nature the missive is said to have embodied, had been unknown at the time the Divyāvadāna was compiled.