A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.2

c10.2

The ‘rājadharma’ sections of the Mahābhārata and the Manusamhitā involve the grafting of the Arthaśāstra stock upon a canonical stem—The blending of the king's public and his domestic functions—The approximation of the concepts of rājadharma and daṇḍanīti—The end of these sciences—The conception of organic unity of the factors of government—The king's fulfilment of the essential needs of the people—The theories of the divine creation of the king—The doctrine of the king's divine nature—The theories of submission and obedience of the subjects—The king's reciprocal duty of protection and its relation to the collection of taxes—The king's divinely ordained duty of protecting his subjects—Protection is the sole justification of the king's office—The right of tyrannicide—The joint authority of the Brāhmaṇa and the Kṣatriya and the mutual relations of these powers—The rules of statecraft in the Mahābhārata and the Manusamhitā—The attitude of the authors towards religion and morality—The conditions of success in republican communities (gaṇas).