A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c11.s2.25

c11.s2.25

And yet while sufficiently emphasizing as above the principle of monarchical authority, the authors whom we are now considering are careful to re-iterate, however partially, the principles tending to check the abuse of the king's power. These writers, to begin with, repeatedly express the idea that the king is the universal protector.† The duty of protection moreover, is enjoined by means of the usual sanctions. It should further be observed that as in the Manusamhitā, the conception of the king's divine creation is here held to involve his divinely ordained duty of protection rather than his divine right to rule.†