Matsya Purana 226.1
Matsyapurāṇa 226.1
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- Sanskrit
226.1
rājadharmavarṇane rājño devasāmyatvavarṇanam.
Matsya said:—A king is created by Brahmâ for the preservation of all the beings for awarding to the Devas their respective shares of sacrificial oblations and for inflicting proper punishment to the guilty.—1.
Translations (1)
- The Matsya Puranam — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
Discussed in (3)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- Hindu Administrative Institutions — Dikshitar 1929, English
- A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. — Ghoshal 1923, English