Hindu Administrative Institutions c5.25

c5.25

Raja Dharma, as the proper discharge of the functions of the king, came to be regarded as of such vital importance to society that failure to carry that out properly involved nothing less than the destruction of society as a whole—destruction of society brought on by the remissness of the person or persons whose function it actually was to protect society from another kind of destruction which was considered the natural concomitant of social life without this essential administrative machinery.