Local Government in Ancient India c15.37

c15.37

Religion, like patriotism, has also its own record of self-sacrifice. An eighth-century record in the Pudukkoṭṭai State commemorates the names of six ascetics who wandered from home into homelessness in the interest of their spiritual life. Military heroism was as much honoured as the more peaceful, but hardly less difficult, one that renounced the world for the quest of truth.