Hindu Administrative Institutions c7.s2.t2.70

c7.s2.t2.70

This was not a pious aphorism laid down by one king or another. It was the ruling principle of every monarch. The absence of militarism and the essentially civil character of the monarchy dominated by the paramount law was one of the reasons which gave a long lease of life to the Hindu state in general. Thus with the law above and the *paura-jānapada*, the council, etc., by his side, the king could not dream of an autocratic form of administration. Kauṭalya says the wrath of the people had led to the killing of the monarchs.