The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c12.153

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¹ A terra-cotta seal discovered at Bhiṭâ near Allâhâbâd bears, in characters of the 4th or 3rd century B.C., the legend Sahijitye Nigamasa (Marshall, Ann. Rep. Arch. Surv. Ind., 1911-12, p. 31). As D. R. Bhandarkar has shown, Nigama can only refer to towns, not to guilds as some scholars thought. It is probable that towns early had seals of their own.

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