Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.39

c5.39

It will be seen from the above list that in Pāṇini’s time there were both individual republics functioning by themselves and confederacies of such republics such as the *Trigarta-shashṭha*, or the *Sālvas* [V. S. Agrawala’s *Pāṇini as a Source of History* to be published shortly].