The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c10.s1.t8.7

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Heavy was the responsibility of this Indian Rome's *nâgaraka* (mayor) and city council. For Pâtali-putra in the third and fourth centuries B. C. was the largest city in the world. Its territorial limits were more than four times those of Periclean Athens (c B. C. 430) or of Augustan Rome (B. C. 27—14 A. C.), the greatest cities of ancient Europe.