About the Book The sources have been taken from the Vedas, Brahmanas, Upanisads, Epics and Puranas, Jaina and Buddhist Religious Books, Inscriptions, edicts, foreign travellers, Copper Plate Grants, Old Sanskrit Books. The book deals with hymns, Gods, Non Brahmanical Aryans, animal sacrifice, food, problem of death, cessation of desires, con duct and self control, Mahavir Vardhaman, Buddha, Sisunagas, Nandas, Mauryas. classes of people, administration, intellectual condition, edicts of Asoka, Sungas, Kanva yanas, Andhras, Sagala, Menander and Nagasena, Kharvela, Kanishka, Rudra damana, Guptas, Mihirkula, Yashovarma, Harshavardhana, Kumar Bhaskaravarma, Pulkesin, Nandivarman, Mahendra Pala, Rajendra Chola, Paramaras, Vikramaditya, Chalukya, Kumaradevi, Singhana, Vishnu vardhana Ganapati, Someswar, Ravivarman, account of the city of Bijainagar and its seven surrounding fortifications, Krishnaraya and Venkata II.

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