The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c18.114

c18.114

Another grant discovered in Mārwār in the modern state of Jodhpur also indicates that the administrative structure in some regions was simpler than in others. The command in question was issued by an independent monarch who bears the three grand titles. But his administrative system is rather elementary.² The same remark applies to Bundelkhaṇḍ. From the 9th century A.D. onwards, the Chandel princes of Jejākabhukti appear as great builders. They beautified the towns of Mahobā, Kālañjar and Khajurāho with magnificent temples, palaces, lakes and tanks which still survive somewhere intact, somewhere in ruins But the administrative system of the whole region of Bundelkhaṇḍ never reached the complexity of other regions. In the Pachar Plate of Paramārdideva which is as late as the 12th century A.D. the king of Kālañjar, like his ancestors, has the three grand titles. His territory is subdivided into Viṣayas but his system of government is not elaborate.³