Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government c2.s1.110

c2.s1.110

n∗ * And CU. IV. 15 etc. That in ŚB. III. 1. 3. 11, 14 Śuṣṇa or Vṛtra are the Person in the eye is to be understood in connection with the fact that Indra is now what Vṛtra was (ŚB. I. 6. 3. 17). For the Person in the eye cf. also Plato, *Alcibiades* I. 133 and Philo, I. 15. 10 where she is at once "This" (Earth, World) and that Nature (*natura naturans*) from whom all things milk their specific qualities. In TS. IV. 5. 4 Sky and Earth are respectively the *svarāj* and the *virāj* (cf. CU. VIII. 25. 2 *svarāj* and *anyarāj*), approximately Empire or Autocracy and "Vice-royalty" or "Kingship"; and it is, of course just in this sense that the supremacy of the *brahma* is related to that of the *kṣatra*. Our text may also contain an allusion to the Virāj which is the Nourishment (*anna*) produced by the Sacrifice (JB. I. 233, 234, cf. II. 82); and the probability of this is increased by the fact that JB. I. 233 speaks of an excess of the Yajña over the Virāj as a fault, the phrase *virāṅ nātīyaṣṭavya* suggesting the *tāṁ sambhavann atyaricyata* of JUB. I. 54. 7 where it is evident that it is only when this unconformity has been corrected that "they became the Viraj."