Local Government in Ancient India c9.140

c9.140

¹ No. 95 (*S. I. I.*, vol. II, pt. iv) indicates the motives that usually prompted these numerous gifts of perpetual lamps to temples through the donations of money, she-buffaloes, cows or ewes. They were sometimes genuinely religious and disinterested, but very often they were connected with secular interests such as desire for victory in the case of donors who were the generals and officers of the king, and such donors were numerous.