Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c37.82

c37.82

‘In my kingdom there is no thief, no coward, no drunkard, no man without the sacrificial fire set up in his house, no one uneducated, no adulterer, *much less an adulteress*’ (Chhāndogya Up., V 11 7.) Here we have the beginning of that theory which becomes an axiom in later times, that political rule of the king is responsible for the moral condition of the people and that he is responsible for good and bad times.