The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s13.37
The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s13.37
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37. This may explain the otherwise strange fact that although the texts seem to suggest that the king's part of the harvest is related to his protection of the people, his right to part of the produce is not dependent on the performance of this duty (see Robert Lingat, *Les Sources du droit traditionel de l'Inde* [Paris, 1967], 237; U. N. Ghoshal, *A History of Indian Political Ideas* [Oxford, 1966], 536f).