The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c16.s1.59
The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c16.s1.59
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The Matsya Purâṇa repeats the same early history of man in yet greater detail and enforces the same conclusion.⁴ It looks with horror on Śûdra kingship and counts it as one of the curses of the degenerate Kali age.⁵ It will appear that Śûdra kingship was a fact at the time. For the rest it repeats its predecessors and reproduces whole sections from Kâmandaka.¹