Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c28.15

c28.15

being all a monarchist look-out.¹ The discussion on the Arājaka state in the Mahā-Bhārata also shows familiarity with a written theory of state of the Arājaka constitution. All these data indirectly prove the existence of well-considered philosophic bases on which republican constitutions were founded. This basis explains to a great extent the variety which we have noticed in republican constitutions. They were not unconscious, instinctive institutions. There could not have been a lack of philosophic thinking in the country of Kapila and the Kaṭhas who tackled much more abstruse problems of philosophy than state.