Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, or the Central and Western Rajput States of India v2.c30.t2.136

v2.c30.t2.136

³ There never was anything so degrading to royalty as the selfish protection guaranteed to it by this Lycurgus of the Hindus, who says, “Against misfortune, let him preserve his wealth; at the expense of his wealth, let him preserve his wife; but let him at all events preserve himself, even at the hazard of his wife and riches.”—Manu, *Laws*, vii. 213. The entire history of the Rajputs shows they do not pay much attention to such unmanly maxims.