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अनुसंधान - १७•57
out that one has to born as an animal in the next birth for living sinful life and making offences. It is also possible to go to hale. We can thus surmise that during author's time the theory of rebirth was widely prevalent. Inspite of this notion and understanding people generally were indulging in doing unreligious affairs, for Haribhadra had oft-repeatedly pointed out this thing very clearly.
Fiction or Dharmakathā
In this manner SK is a Dharmakathā in one sense while it is fiction on the other hand. It is said that the propagation of writing fiction literature both in Sanskrut and Prakrut might be widely in vogue especially in Rajasthan and perhaps across the country in general during the time of Haribhadra. Even Jaina religious literature had adopted this form of writing as well.
Different things have been knitted well in this work. Though the information detailed out in this work throw good deal of light to the national heritage, the purport here, it seems, is to highlight to what extent the information given here-in is useful to reconstruct the cultural history of Rajasthan. Administration
We get interesting facts regarding administration of Rajasthan. From frequent mention of different kings it is possible to surmise the possibility of Monarchical system of government then. The monarchy was heriditory as can be seen from the Prince Gunasena as getting the throne from his father (Bhava one). State might have been known as Empire from the fact that it was divided into provinces and the responsibility of provinces were entrusted to Viceroys. Samarketu was the Viceroy of Ujjain (Bhava five). The tradition of Yuvaraja (heir-apparent) was also prevalent. Aparajit was Yuvaraja (Bhava six). During the tenure of Yuvaraja all sorts of
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