The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c11.t13.4

c11.t13.4

It is evident that in the annals of imperial Rome nobody was a greater administrative genius than the Châlukya-Chola monarch of the early twelfth century. And Kulot-tûnga, "the highest in the family", was but continuing the tradition of the first *sârva-bhaumas* of India, the Mauryas, whose civil engineers had constructed a magnificent highway from Pâtali-putra to the Afghan frontier, a distance of 10,000 *stadia* (over 1,100 miles).⁴ Besides, in an account of the achievements of the Hindu civil service we must not omit to mention the monumental irrigation works that signalized the "developmental functions" of Indian states from at least the time of Megasthenes' observations, — in Kashmir as in Ceylon, in Gujarat as in Madras.)