Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c45.6

c45.6

The judges in Persia under Cambyses "found a law that the "Persian king might do whatever he pleased."⁴ But such a finding was impossible to be come to by Hindu judges and lawyers; so much so that even the author of the Artha-Sāstra tells his prince that destruction befalls an arbitrary king.⁵