Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government c2.s1.112

c2.s1.112

²⁷ I. e. "He has been born as my son"; whereas in BU. I. 4. 4 "He has begotten me of himself," i. e. "I am his daughter," cf. note 24. Both are correct propositions, and both serve as the ground for the mother's withdrawal. The rebirth of the father as the son is in accordance with the Indian and universal doctrine of progenitive reincarnation and consequent consubstantiality of father and son; the wife who bears a son becoming thereby the husband's "second mother" (*jananī punaḥ*, AB. VII. 13, cf. Mbh. I. 68. 47 [Poona ed.]).