The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c14.63

c14.63

which is his most probable epoch, is, as V. A. Smith puts it, “ one of the dark spaces in the spectrum of Indian history, and almost every event of that time is concealed from view by an impenetrable veil of oblivion.”¹ It can only be premised that so far as he reflects any actual practice, it is that which prevailed about the 2nd or 3rd century A.D.