The Social and Military Position of the Ruling Caste in Ancient India, as Represented by the Sanskrit Epic c2.s5.4

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∗ Brihaspati, in xii. 69. 23, gives only conciliation, bribery, and dissension as the three legitimate means. But elsewhere we find other lists, making the ‘means’ four in number, or even more—five, or seven being adduced (compare ii. 5. 21, and ib. 61; Kām. Nit. xvii. 3; x. 10; viii. 70). ‘Polity’ is made a means, as in v. 132. 31-32, where a king is thus exhorted to recover his kingdom: ‘to beg is not allowed thee; to till the soil is shame; a knight thou art, and livest by might of arms alone; then take again thy kingdom, by any means thou canst—by