[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v4.c62.167 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.167 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.167 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c62.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.167) Kauṭilya (VII. 16) prescribes that the conqueror should not covet the territory, wealth, sons and wives of the slain (in battle), that he should re-instate the late king's kinsmen in their proper places (or positions), that he should instal the son of the deceased king on the throne of his father and adds that the emperor who kills or imprisons the kings that submit and covets their lands, wealth, sons or wives provokes the \*maṇḍala\* (the circle of States) and makes it rise against himself. Yājñavalkya (I. 342-43) prescribes that it is the duty of the conqueror to protect the conquered country in the same way as his own country and the conqueror is to respect the customs of the conquered country, its laws and the usages of the families therein. - [Previous: v4.c62.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.166) - [Next: v4.c62.168](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.168) - [Up: v4.c62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62) ## Linked texts (2) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.7.16) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.167) · Pramāṇa