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A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.126

A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.126

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c10.126

∗ Śāntiparvan CXXX 23-24. The commentator explains the last passage by saying that the king's proper duty is the acquisition of wealth by means of victory in the battlefield, and that the duty nearest to it is the acquisition of wealth by the oppression of one's own kingdom as well as that of the enemy.