The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c12.36

Language: English

c12.36

a parallelogram, and is girded with a wooden wall pierced with loopholes for the discharge of arrows. It has a ditch in front for defence, and for receiving the sewage of the city.”¹ Pliny also remarks that it was “a very large and wealthy city.”² The wooden wall was pierced by sixty-four gates and crowned by five hundred and seventy towers.³ The capital dominated the kingdom which, as well as its ruler, was called by its name.⁴

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