[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Administrative Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929) › c6.64 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.64 Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.64 - **Language:** English ### [c6.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.64) Kauṭalya says that \*daṇḍa\* which is applied after duly examining the precepts laid down in the \*Śāstras\* (सुविज्ञातप्रणीतः) alone ends in the realization of \*dharma\*, \*artha\* and \*kāma\*,—the \*trivarga\* of Hindu literature. We shall examine later the nature of this \*trivarga\* and its relation to the \*daṇḍa nīti\*. An ill-application of the \*daṇḍa\* (दुष्प्रणीतः) i.e. not administering justice according to the rules and regulations ordained in the sacred books, cannot realize the end. It is said that \*daṇḍa\* which is the consequence of ambition, jealousy, and ignorance, enkindles the anger even of \*vānaprasthas\* and ascetics. And further the absence of application of \*daṇḍa\* gives the occasion for \*mātsya nyāya\* which we shall explain later on. Protected by \*daṇḍa\*, Kauṭalya concludes, the state prospers.² In recapitulating the substance of the original \*daṇḍa nīti\* of Brahma, the Creator, Bhīṣma remarks, that this treatise is directed by \*daṇḍa\*, or \*daṇḍa\* is the directing force of this work. This \*daṇḍa nīti\* was made for the well-being of the world and for the establishment of \*trivarga\*. \*Daṇḍa\* affords protection to the world by means of repression and favour.³ - [Previous: c6.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.63) - [Next: c6.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.65) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6) ## Linked texts (1) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.64) · Pramāṇa