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main shops bore locks and keys. The city maidens as well as the harlots took to the penchant of taking to wine or the city maidens catered to the desires of the attractive husbands while the harlots acted wantonly by their liking for the wine.? Food of the people consisted in the fruits such as orange, Panasa (the bread fruit) and plantain, while their drink consisted solely of the juice of coconut fruit. The ornaments of the people consisted in pearls and their religious duty consisted in compassion. They revelled in charity and noble traits such as truthfulness, purity etc. Their recreation comprised of learned discourses on the scriptures.
Similarly the nagarī named Rangaśālā (the capital town of Simhalas) was glamorous with thousands of mansions of the citizens bearing shapes of the aeroplanes or seven-storeyed in dimensions (Vimānākāra) and was surrounded by a sky-scraping fortification, being the very ornament of the entire earth.' Candraketu, sire of Samaraketu, had a naval corps which had its jurisdiction up to the limits of the South of India (Dakşiņāpatha) and which could hold capacity to chastise the wicked vassals abiding close to the mountain called Suvela, acting recussant through devices and betraying loyalty through argumentation, acting playfully during catastrophes, feeling morose during rejoicings, offering lame excuses for not having come when summoned, effecting delay or resorting to procrastination in offering or releasing charities or gifts and fines, refusing to pay off the tributes they had voluntarily agreed to pay and taking to hauteur by resorting to the strategies in accordance with the time and place etc.
Mandala, Janapada, Nagara, Grāma were the four main divisions of the country populous with the population.
"अनेकैः काश्मीरादिमण्डलप्रतिबद्धैः प्रधाननगरग्रामैरुपेतं कुमारभुक्तावखिलमुत्तरापथमर्पयाम्बभूव, समरकेतोश्च सर्वदायसहितानंगजीवनेऽङ्गादिजनपदान प्रायच्छत्४
1. Higfeldicht: T11994: TM. Vol. III, p. 172 2. RT folderua: quafdal: Grydagi Ibid. 3. यत्र नारङ्गपनसकदलकप्रायमशनम्, नालिकेरीफलरप्रायं पानम्, मुक्ताफलप्रायमाभरणम्, कृपाप्रायं धर्मानुष्ठानम्,
GHYRİ #H, HEREURTHERUTH, H ERET Gang) faith chicken Ibid. III. p. 171. 4. Ibid. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid. 7. Fiectata 44 dancityqu.... farm14RURI T TYC -14 T Ibid. Vol. II pp.
250-251. 8. तत्रस्थः पिता मे चन्द्रकेतुः कदाचिद् देशकालाद्यवष्टम्भसंभृतावलेपानां प्रपन्नमपि पूर्वदायमप्रयच्छतां विक्षेपविसर्जनेषु
कालक्षेपकारिणामाह्वानेषु बह्वनागमनकारण....प्रीतिमुपदर्शयतां युक्त्या प्रतिलोमं व्यवहरतां सुवेलशैलोपकण्ठवासिनां GATHI waar 411414 Phai Ibid. Vol. II pp. 250-251.
