Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c47.59
Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c47.59
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c47.59
"Its meaning is [this]: king is called the *Svāmin* of land, not of other wealth connected with land. '*Not in any other way*' is [laid down] as there is want of master-ship in land. 'Living beings' are those having life; 'habitation thereof' is habitation of the land'; *master-ship* that is mastership of the king. Hence he can only receive one sixth from their acts"