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people for the service of protection, is for once carried to its extreme limit, and however much we may be disinclined to treat Āryadeva’s outburst as partaking of the nature of a well-considered political theory, it is impossible not to be struck with the broad contrast that it presents to the attitude of the Brahminical canonists of this period who applied themselves principally to the vindication of monarchical authority.∗