The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c9.s1.4

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c9.s1.4

¹ In a note to VIII, 2, Macdonell notes that some Mss. read Rāṣṭra for Rājya in the ordinary sense. It is clear that Rāṣṭra did not yet possess the fiscal significance which it has in some later writers. Nor did it mean a province, as distinct from the whole kingdom.

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Bṛhaddevatā — Śaunaka, Sanskrit