Assertion: dynasty's authority | /r/AtLocation | the hands of a few persons
Facets:
value: entirely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Reasons advanced for the decline include the succession of weak kings after Aśoka Maurya, the partition of the empire into two, the growing independence of some areas within the empire, such as that ruled by Sophagasenus, a top-heavy administration where authority was entirely in the hands of a few persons, an absence of any national consciousness,, the pure scale of the empire making it unwieldy, and invasion by the Greco-Bactrian Empire.