The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c18.92

c18.92

In this inscription Ādisiṃha is only called Magadhādhirāja. The absence of any of the three grand titles—Parameśvara, Mahārājādhirāja, Paramabhaṭṭāraka—which were universally employed by independent kings from the Gupta period onwards, shows that Ādisiṃha himself was only a feudatory. Nor does his name appear in any other inscription as that of a suzerain. So there is the interesting spectacle of feudatory Adhirājas creating sub-feudatory Rājas.