Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c39.4

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c39.4

This was demonstrated when an attempt at establishing a theory which was the nearest Hindu approach to the divine theory of kingship miserably failed. The **Mānava Dharma-Sāstra** which was written under the **revolutionary régime of the Brahmin Pushyamitra**² preached that the king should not be despised because

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Mānava Dharmaśāstra — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit