The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c18.18

c18.18

Harihara's Bhartṛharinirveda, in Sanskrit and Prākṛt, brings in the fourth Act, a king listening quietly and attentively to an ascetic's instruction. Rājaśekhara who flourished about 900 A.D. at the court of Mahendrapāla and his successor at Kanauj, wrote four plays: (1) Karpūramañjarī, (2) Bālarāmāyaṇa, (3) Pracaṇḍapāṇḍava, and (4) Viddhalaśālabhañjikā. In the last both the minister Bhāgurāyaṇa and the buffoon Cāyaṇa are Brāhmaṇas.