Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.10

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² The idea of “sole monarchy”—*Ekarāja: Cāturanta*—known as early as the *Ṛgveda*, viii, 37, 3 and the *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa*, viii, 15, (*Pṛthivyai Samudraparyantāya Ekarāṭ*) and exhorted by Kauṭilya. *Arthaśāstra* IX, 1, is also known to the *Jātakas*, IV, p. 309-G 80; 310 G. 85, p. 476-G. 1670. For the meaning of the term “*Ekarāṭ*” see *Vedic Index*, I, p. 119; Jayaswal, *Hindu Polity*, ch. xxxvii; its criticism *I. H. Q.*, I, pp. 570 ff; Dikshitar, *Hindu Administrative Institutions*, pp. 79-80 and note. The *Hāthigumphā Inscription* of Khāravela mentions this idea of “*Ekarāṭ*” Line I.