Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.23

c4.23

"Matrimony was an effective bond of alliance between different ruling families. These alliances were not always free from political considerations."¹ Thus the Asilakkhaṇa and the Mudupāṇi Jātakas² present before us a king who thinks that it would be much more useful if he can enter into matrimonial alliances with two royal houses through the marriages of his daughter and nephew. Of such alliances we have already taken notice in the course of our tracing the history of those times.