The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c6.14

c6.14

It is true that Indo-Aryan liberty was not of the crude Western type represented by the formula "Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité." It was liberty for every man, whether king or peasant, to follow his own Dharma—the Dharma being that which long tradition and the wisest of Aryan law-givers, who knew Indian history and the Indian people, had taught every man within the Aryan pale to regard as his duty to God, the State, his household, and himself. And the constitution which preserved this fine ideal of liberty was the Aryan miniature Republic, with its Council of Five, which was the political unit of Indo-Aryan Government.