A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.119

c10.119

[^asterisk]: * Śāntiparvan CXXX 8-9, 13-16, 18. We have adopted in the rendering of the last verse but one the explanation of the commentator who illustrates the author’s meaning by saying that the king’s fleecing of the subjects becomes a righteous act in times of distress, while its non-performance becomes a sin.