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n ‡ VII 88, S. B. E. Vol. XXV, p. 230. It may be noticed here that the commentators of the Smriti works, while treating the concept of rājadharma, introduce a twofold distinction which, we think, virtually corresponds to the difference between the king's public and his domestic functions. For they conceive the rājadharma to be of two kinds, namely those bearing visible fruit (drriṣṭārtha) and those producing invisible fruit (adriṣṭārtha). The former are illustrated by the sixfold policy and the latter by the Agnihotra sacrifice. Cf. Medhātithi's commentary on Manusaṁhitā VII. 1.