Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.s2.11

c6.s2.11

This indicates the traditional feeling of *mātsya nyāya* and hence may be usefully adopted as the more correct view. It is interesting to recall here that the same line occurs in the *Yuktikalpa-taru*.³ There is also another reading of the line in the *Śānti Parvan* of the *Mahābhārata* with a slight difference.⁴ This idea again of smaller fish being devoured by the larger ones is also found mentioned in the legend of the fish narrated by Mārkaṇḍeya in the *Vana Parvan* of the *Mahābhārata*.⁵