A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c7.63

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† The view of the elective origin of the divine sovereignty occurs in another passage of the Ait. Br. I. 1. 14. There it is declared that the gods and the demons fought with one another. The gods were beaten in all directions. Then they spoke to one another. ‘It is because we have no king (arājatāya) that they are defeating us, let us elect a king.’ Thereafter they created Soma king, and through his help obtained victory in all directions.