Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c43.72

c43.72

son, or a grandson.¹ Like other Ministers he was a Sahāya or ‘Colleague’ of the king. The Yuvarāja had his seal, and the set formula with which he signed. Under Aśoka, on the authority of the Divyāvadāna,² Samprati, a grandson, was the Yuvarāja, while the son, Kuṇāla was the Presidency Governor at Takshaśilā (the capital of the Northern Presidency).