[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.s3.7 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.s3.7 Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.s3.7 - **Language:** English ### [c6.s3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s3.7) This plant of \*dharma\* should be carefully nurtured for all acts grow from it. That king who, though deprived of \*artha\* and \*kāma\*, clings to \*dharma\*, reigns long.⁴ \*Daṇḍa nīti\* is like the reins of a horse, or the goad of an elephant, to men of the four \*varṇas\*, to keep them in the ordained path of \*dharma\*. - [Previous: c6.s3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s3.6) - [Next: c6.s3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s3.8) - [Up: c6.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s3.7) · Pramāṇa