Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.70

c41.70

Rudradāman, as he says in his inscription, proposed to his ministers the restoration of the great water works of the Mauryas, the Sudarśana lake, which proposal was rejected by his Council of Ministers. Thereupon Rudradāman did the repairs from 'his own private purse'. In doing so, he says that he did not trouble the "Paura-Jānapada jana or body" with a demand for benevolences for the purpose.² Just before, he has already said that he realized taxes only so much as was rightfully allowed (by Hindu Law)³.