[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) › c7.s2.t2.75 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c7.s2.t2.75 Hindu Administrative Institutions c7.s2.t2.75 - **Language:** English ### [c7.s2.t2.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c7.s2.t2.75) Every ambitious conquering monarch was actuated by the legitimate aim of a \*digvijaya\*, a victorious progress through the country.¹ Evidence, literary and epigraphical, is not wanting to corroborate these statements as embodying a common feeling or general sentiment. What is patriotism if it is not the love of the native land! Here it was sung ages ago and it is still a common place among the people that² mother and motherland are greater than heaven itself. What a grand conception for a nation bent upon the ideals of \*mokṣa\* or heaven. The fact was the ideal of \*mokṣa\* was only one of the four \*puruṣārthas\*, and that, the ultimate. \*Mokṣa\* comes to those who have fulfilled three \*puruṣārthas\*,—\*dharma\*, \*artha\*, and \*kāma\*, properly and rightly. The conception of motherland being equal to the mother herself is a lofty ideal for a nation's progress. In the face of this testimony could we maintain that the ancient Hindus were devoid of patriotism? - [Previous: c7.s2.t2.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c7.s2.t2.74) - [Next: c7.s2.t2.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c7.s2.t2.76) - [Up: c7.s2.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c7.s2.t2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c7.s2.t2.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c7.s2.t2.75) · Pramāṇa