Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c36.63

c36.63

In the description and details of the waters there is to be found a poetic finish to the symbolical constitutionalism. Waters are brought from the Sarasvatī of historic memories, from the mighty rivers of the land, from the great Ocean. The sum total of these waters is yet to be contributed to by a humble pool of the country. The latter is invoked with the lofty address: "*Pleasing ye are, Bestowers of kingship, bestow ye kingship on. N. N.*" The comment on the sacred address of the Brāhmaṇa is majestic and is reserved only for this insignificant reservoir; "*He thereby makes the people steady* (the water of the pool being steady) *and faithful to him.*"² A common pool of the country over which he is going to rule is made a sacred source of his sovereign powers.