Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c30.46

c30.46

¹ *Īśvara* in the meaning of 'ruler' is a technical term, *v. g.*, *Mahābhāshya*, on P., VI. 1. 2., Kielhorn, III, p. 7, ‘ईश्वर आज्ञापयति। ग्रामाद्ग्रामान्तरं सानोबन्धी राज्ञाऽभिमतौ ब्राह्मणा बानीयेताविति’। Cf. *ibid.*, II, 365. See also *Gautama-Dh. S.*, IX. 63; *J.*, I, 510, ‘issariya’, ‘sovereignty.’