A History of Hindu Political Theories from the Earliest Times to the End of the First Quarter of the Seventeenth Century A.D. c8.s3.115

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be honoured in every way ; for (each of) them is a very great deity."[^ *] As these verses occur with very slight changes in the Anuśāsanaparvan CLI 21-23, they are evidently derived in both cases from an earlier and common source. It is in relation to these extraordinary pretensions laid down by our present authors that we have to consider their final view of the mutual relations of the Brāhmaṇa and the Kṣatriya. In two verses which are practically common to the Manusamhitā and the Mahābhārata we read, "When the Kṣhatriyas become in any way overbearing towards the Brāhmaṇas, the Brāhmaṇas themselves shall duly restrain them ; for the Kṣhatriyas sprang from the Brāhmaṇas. Fire sprang from water, Kṣhatriyas from Brāhmaṇas, iron from stone, the all-penetrating force of those (three) has no effect on that whence they were produced."[^ †] In this passage, it will be observed, not only does the author revert to the extreme view of the Brāhmaṇa texts, but he connects therewith the Brāhmaṇa's right of punishing the king for misconduct.