A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c10.37

c10.37

devour the weaker in the fashion of fishes living in the water[^asterisk]. The gist of the above passages may perhaps be expressed by saying that the happiness and indeed the existence of the people depend upon the king's office. In the following chapter Bhīṣma reproduces what purports to be the address of the sage Brihaspati to Vasumanas wherein, as we have seen in another place, both the evils attending the king's non-existence and the blessings following from his presence are described with great force.dagger