Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c6.s2.53

c6.s2.53

Thus, the inscriptions and numismatic data suggest that it was not at the hands of the powerful Indian kings like Rūdradāman and Samudra Gupta that the western republics suffered their fatal blow, but rather that it was partly because of some inherent weakness of Indian republicanism,⁹ and partly due to foreign rulers like Toramāṇa and Mihirakula.¹⁰