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# War in Ancient India c5.s5.37

War in Ancient India c5.s5.37

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### [c5.s5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1944.c5.s5.37)

Thus, though some of the Niti treatises seem to permit this unrighteous warfare, yet the didactic epics and law codes do not support it at all. As a method of war it is condemned as unjust and unfair.

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