[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924) › c44.54 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c44.54 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c44.54 - **Language:** English ### [c44.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c44.54) "And the Rājūkas disregard (\*laghanti\*=\*laṅghanti\*) my proclamations, while my (own) subordinate officers \[\*purushas\*, Cf. Artha-Śāstra, p. 245\] will promulgate my opinion and orders \[\*chhandam anāni\*: Cf. \*āṇam\*, Jātaka 1.398\]. And they \[Rājūkas\] will advise the Provinces \[\*Chakāni\*\]² which wish to serve the Rājūkas, not me.³ Therefore let me indeed, consign the (Child) Subject \[\*Pajam\*, a pun on the word\] to the \*viyatā\* Nurse \[a pun on the word, 'anxious' 'exerting' 'with open arms', and 'separating herself', \*i.e.\*, from me\]. The anxious Nurse becomes tranquil; she wants to defend well my Prājā \[pun on \*sukham palihaṭave\*, 'comfortably to snatch away my Child'\]. - [Previous: c44.53](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c44.53) - [Next: c44.55](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c44.55) - [Up: c44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c44) ## Cites (2) - [Jātakatthavaṇṇanā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka!jatakatthavannana*cst.1.10.6.p13) — Pāli - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c44.54](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c44.54) · Pramāṇa