[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924) › c18.26 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c18.26 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c18.26 - **Language:** English ### [c18.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c18.26) § 95. Hindu commentators failing to recognise the significance of the word \*Vairājya\* (‘kinglessness’) have fallen into the error of rendering it as ‘\*shining condition\*.’ But there cannot be the slightest doubt as to the constitutional interpretation given here. Other terms of the same passage of the Aitareya do bear constitutional interpretation; and if any additional evidence were necessary, I would refer to the term as used by Kauṭilya who treats it as a form of government and rejects it as a bad form.¹ He, like his contemporary Greek thinkers, held democracy in contempt. According to him - [Previous: c18.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c18.25) - [Next: c18.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c18.27) - [Up: c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c18) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c18.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c18.26) · Pramāṇa