The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c15.126

c15.126

Numerous inscriptions show that in the government of the suzerain, as in that of feudatories, two or more offices were often combined in the same hands. The Kumārāmātya, Saṃdhivigrahika and Dūtaka, for instance, might be the same person.¹ In the inscription of a feudatory Bhogika and Amātya are the same man.² On the other hand, an office could be split up between two persons. Sometimes the same ruler has more than one Dūtaka at the same time.³