Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c51.12

c51.12

We have thus two main systems : one is the Suzerainty or *Ādhipatya* system and the other is the Pan-Country Monarchy or the *Sārvabhauma*.⁵ The latter system was extended and applied even to the Aryan India by the kings of Magadha which shocked the principle of *Jānarājya*. Hindu historians denounced the "one-king," "one-umbrella" sovereignty of Mahā-Padma established over the ashes of the houses of Vedic antiquity⁶ § 363).