Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.54

c41.54

§ 270. In empires there were presidency capitals. There seems to have been an independent Paura body in such a capital. The Paura alone in such cases are mentioned. There was no separate Jānapada body there and it seems that the latter still sat at the imperial capital representing the whole country. The Pauras were prone to take offence at the Ministry's behaviour. The Pauras alone of Takshaśilā, the capital of the North (Uttarāpatha) in the time of Aśoka, are related to have become 'hostile'. Prince Kuṇāla was sent by his father, King Aśoka, to pacify them. The Paura coming forward told the prince in their address of welcome: "We are not hostile to Your Highness (the viceroy) "nor are we hostile to King Aśoka, but (we are so to) the "rascally Ministers who have come and "who are rude to us ('insult us')."³