[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.c62.45.4 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.45.4 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c62.45.4 - **Language:** English ### [v4.c62.45.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.45.4) 41 advises that one should first secure a king, then wife and then wealth, for in the absence of the ruler there would be no wife nor private property.²⁶ This shows that the institutions of family and private property and the protection of the weak are bound up with the existence of a ruler. Kātyāyana (in Rāja N. P. p. 30) says the king is the protector of the helpless, the home of the homeless, the son of the sonless and the father of the fatherless. - [Previous: v4.c62.45.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.45.3) - [Next: v4.c62.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.46) - [Up: v4.c62.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.45) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.45.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c62.45.4) · Pramāṇa