The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c21.63

c21.63

the Nizâmshahî ruler of Ahmednagar in the sixteenth century. Legal digests like those of Jîmûtavâhana (15th or 16th century A.D.) rarely touch administration proper. Medieval vernacular literature in the North rarely touches politics. The Bundeloñ kî Vamśâvalî (Chhatarpur Ms.) is one of the few exceptions. For a detailed notice, Beni Prasad, Journal of the U. P. Historical Society, 1922. For slight political touches in Sûra Dâsa, the greatest of Medieval lyricists, Sûra Sâgara, IX, 170; X, 160, 221, 1008, 2377, 2503, 2505, 2507, 2569. Similarly for Tulasî Dâsa, the greatest of Hindî poets, Râmacarita-mânasa (Indian Press, Allâhâbâd edition, pp. 233, 270-71, 338, 373, 392, 399). Krittivâsa's Bengalî version of the Râmâyaṇa is no better. Southern literature is much more useful for politics. For instance, the Telugu classic attributed to King Kṛiṣṇadeva Râya (1509—30 A.D.) has a number of political maxims with a bearing on practice For a summary, Raṅgaswâmî Saraswatî, Journal of Indian History, January, 1926, pp. 64—77.