Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.80

c41.80

"To provide for a future distress, kings" [according to our Mahā-Bhārata authority] "raise and keep by funds. "All the Paura-Jānapadas (i. e., all the members) those in "session (saṁśrita), as well as those taking ease "(upāśrita), *i.e.*, every one of them should be shown (royal) "sympathy, even those who are not rich. Dissension should be "created in the Outer (Bāhya) body of theirs and then the "Middle body to be well (or comfortably) won over (bribed, "entertained'). The king thus acting, the People will not be "excited and disaffected whether they feel (the burden) easy "or heavy. Then, before money demand is made, the king going "to them and addressing by a speech should point out to the