The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c18.42

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c18.42

¹ (Jaina) Harivaṁśa Purâṇa (Gândhî Haribhaî Devakaraṇa Jaina Granthamâlâ No. 2), I, pp. 148-49. See Canto II for royal pomp and splendour. For an instance of stern justice, see Uttara Purâṇa, LXVII, 96-111, where a king, in spite of the protests of ministers, sentences a defaulting prince to death and remarks that a king should cut off the right hand if it offends.

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Uttarapurāṇa — Guṇabhadra, Sanskrit
Harivaṃśapurāṇa — Jinasena (Punnāṭa), Sanskrit