Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.31

c6.31

(Trivandrum Sanskrit Series, Kāmandakinītisāra, p. 28.) establishing yogakshema by a treaty with the superior power. The reverse is impolicy. But it must be remembered that this is only one aspect of daṇḍa nīti. There is an excellent paraphrase of this term in the Rāmāyaṇa. Kumbhakarṇa speaks of it to his brother Rāvaṇa on the eve of the war.