Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.s3.1

c6.s3.1

There is one other aspect of the science of daṇḍa and that is its relation to trivarga. This important aspect has received but little attention. Daṇḍa nīti has been characterized rightly, as trivarga vidyā, the science of the three ends of life.² The trivarga, namely, dharma, artha, and kāma, leaving mokṣa, out of account, constitutes the puruṣārthas of Hindu sociology, and *Rājadharma* functions towards the attainment of these *puruṣārthas*.¹