Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c47.49

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c47.49

"Doubt may arise in case a *Sārvabhauma* King (Emperor) "in Viśvajit and others 'gives away all he possesses.' In that "case (is) the Great Land which contains public roads, ways for "cattle, seats of water etc. to be given away? For in land "there is his wealth owing to the text of Smṛiti—'King may "'wish for (the wealth of) all excepting Brahmins.'

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