Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.78

c41.78

throne begging extra taxes from the Paura-Jānapada is given in the Mahā-Bhārata. I quoted the speech in 1912 but its constitutional character could not be realized before Khāravela's inscription disclosed the corporate Paura and Jānapada. The passage just before that speech is most important, for it shows the methods to which the Crown resorted, to obtain the grants from the Paura-Jānapada. The method of securing a majority in the assembly of the Jānapada is given, and royal dishonesty in defeating the Jānapada is divulged. The very method, at the same time, proves the legal power and authority of the Paura-Jānapada.¹