The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c10.47

c10.47

his head, and having made him an outcast sent him away to an outcast settlement. But the prince continued to attend to his wants there (VI, 146 et seq.). Elsewhere a significant tradition is recorded that a king who violated righteousness was swallowed up by flames from the earth and his sons had to leave the city (III, 458 et seq.).