History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.1028
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.1028
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Kauṭilya, advises employment of poison, herbs and incantations 12; advises king in difficulties to deprive even temples of their wealth 13; does not advise people to eschew pleasures altogether 240-241; 1, 9, 10, 12, 17-18, 20, 21, 24, 28, 31, 42, 44-48, 50-52, 54-56, 58-61, 66, 69, 83-85, 87-89, 95, 98, 99, 102, 104-109, 111, 112, 114n, 116-121, 123, 124, 127-131, 134, 140, 142, 151-52, 154-55, 160-61, 163, 166-67, 169-71, 174-76, 178, 179, 181, 184-85, 188-89, 191, 193, 195, 203n, 208, 211n, 212, 216-18, 220n, 221-23, 228, 230, 232-33, 239-43, 248, 250, 252, 255, 257-58, 273, 275-77, 282, 284, 293-296, 298, 302, 303, 307, 310, 330, 332-34, 336, 342, 343, 345, 347, 349, 356-57, 380, 391-92, 394, 396, 399, 400, 405-06, 409n, 412, 418-422, 426, 428, 430, 433-34, 440-42, 447, 450-51, 454, 459, 464, 469, 471-72, 476, 478, 481, 489-90, 492, 501, 504, 508, 512-13, 515-17, 519, 525, 527-29, 533-34, 538-39, 566, 573, 589, 598, 608, 616-17, 619, 621, 623, 624, 631, 635, 655, 657, 659, 708, 763, 766, 772, 779, 786-87, 791, 804, 811, 860, 881. Kautsa 524. Kavaḍidvīpa, 1¼ lakh country 139. Kavaṣa Ailūṣa, story of 600n. Kāvya, expounder of rājadharma 2; is said to have abridged the work of Brahmā 4. Kāvyamīmāṁsā 47n, 66n, 67, 134n, 136. Keith, Prof. A. B. 122n, 388. Kerala, country of, 261. Keśavapaṇḍita 13, 403. Khādira-gṛhya-sūtra 692, 940 Khaṇḍadeva 848, 854. Khāravela, king of Kaliṅga 962; accomplishments of 49; followed policy of daṇḍa, sāma and sandhi 172;
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Hāthīgumphā Inscription of, 17, 49, 60, 65, 69, 94, 162, 172, 195, 246; performed Rājasūya sacrifice 70; was crowned king in his 25th year 80; was styled Kaliṅga-cakravartin 66; was *yuvarāja* for 9 years 116. Khaśa, tribe 861n. Kīcaka, was met by Bhīma dressed as Draupadī 172. Killing, of animals forbidden for ten years in Kashmir 100. King (see under 'battle', 'brāhmaṇa', 'coronation', 'kṣatriya', 'land', 'rājadharma', 'ruler', 'taxes'); adhvaryu priest deputized for k. when latter engaged in Aśvamedha and got three times his ordinary pay 28; administering justice and punishing the guilty were two among the prime functions of 242; all sons of a k do not succeed to the throne but only the eldest 42, 87; appointed a hierarchy of officers over one village, ten, twenty, 100; villages and so on 141; appointed as many superintendents as were required for several departments of State 142; aspiring to be a *samrāṭ* (emperor) performed Aśvamedha and Rājasūya 70; authority of, over brāhmaṇas was limited 25; business of, to see that proper weights and measures are used 166; calamities in a, are six 46; characteristics of an ambitious (vijigīṣu) 218; compared to the performer of a sacrifice 61; consultation by, with ministers should be in a secret place 108; consultation by, with three or four mantrins 107; coronation of 72ff; could not be cited as a witness 176, 336; daily routine of 60-61; dependence of, on saṁvatsara (astrologer) 126; deposing a bad k., allowed by Manu, Yāj.
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and others 26; described by some works as servant of the people 27-28, 36-37; disputes between parties should not be started by k. or his officers 251; duties and responsibilities of, 56-60; duties of are either *dṛṣṭārtha* or *adṛṣṭārtha* 8; duty of, to donate fields and money to brāhmaṇas acc. to their worth 1; duty of, to guard property of minors, women and helpless people 574; duty of, to prevent danger from thieves in villages and forests 1, 167; duty of, to protect arises from the taking of taxes 39; duty of, to punish those who swerve from the usages of their family, caste, guild or group 881-882; duty of, to save subjects from internal calamities such as famines and floods and epidemics 163; duty of, to see that people act acc. to rules of dharmaśāstra 3, 57; duty of, to support students, learned brāhmaṇas and sacrificers 59, 164; duty of, to tolerate and enforce varying practices of people 861; edicts of, how promulgated 99; education of 46-53; election of 29; eldest son of, generally succeeded 87; enjoined to inflict heavy fines on himself for illegal exactions 97; entitled to take a sixth part not only of land produce, but of many other things 192; eulogy of the office of 25; faults and vices of, are due to ignorance and lack of training 233; faults to be avoided by 46; five chief duties of 57; foremost duty of, is protection 56, 57, 242; fountain of justice 242; fruits of the policy of 216; functions of, were religious and secular 101;
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gambling the worst of vices in a 54; generally a man alone became a k. 40; grand policy for a k. is *aviśvāsa* 12; grounds of obligation to obey the 37; had monopoly as to elephants, saffron &c. 197; had to provide for *śrāddhas* and concubines of the deceased when he took by escheat 763; harmony between k. and brāhmaṇas 25; has parts of gods in him 23; has no friend 216; high ideal placed before 61-63, 96; hot-tempered k. fell victim to popular fury 98; how k. should deal with his officers 114; how k. should spend first and latter part of day 51; incurred sin, if he did not punish the guilty 2; is the maker of his age 3, 892; is the State, acc. to Kauṭilya 18; is to look into lawsuits in the 2nd part of the day 95, 242; killing of, when sanctioned by ancient works 26; legislative action of, very limited in ancient times 98; levying an unjust fine was to offer thirty times thereof to Varuṇa 176; may prohibit export of foodstuffs in a famine 100; may inflict bodily punishment on *caṇḍālas* and other low people but should not take fines from them 408; may take cognizance of matters called *chalas*, *aparādhas* of his own motion without anyone's complaint 263-264; measures to be taken by, for safety against his own sons 83; measures to be taken by, for safety against fire and poisons 84; most important of the seven elements of the State 18; neccessity to a k. for curbing his senses and not falling a prey to *kāma* and *krodha* 53; necessity of moral discipline in the case of 52;
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necessity of the office of, emphasized 20-22; not showing himself to litigants suffers like king Nṛga 243; not to run away from battle 57; oppressing subjects is made of parts of *rākṣasas* 25; oppressing subjects may be destroyed by brāhmaṇas 27; orders that could be issued by 98-99; orders on certain matters could not be issued by k in ancient India 98-99; *paṭṭa* (tiara) for the k. 82; person abusing the k. had tongue cut off 513; policy of, settled in consultation with ministers may be divulged by birds and dogs 108-109; policy of, should not be known to an outsider 109, 111; procedure followed in issuing orders of 115; public *durbar* of, how arranged 114; punishing those that do not deserve to be punished and not punishing the guilty goes to Hell 242; purposes for which office of k. was created by God 21; qualities of a good k. 44-45; qualities of a k. are 36 acc. to Śāntiparva 45; qualities of a k. are 96 acc. to Paraśurāmapratāpa 46; reasons for raising the k. to the position of a divinity 27; responsibilities of 161-168; right of, to mines and minerals 196; shared in the spiritual merit and demerit of his subjects 37, 195; should consult *purohita* after consulting ministers 110; should honour and protect chaste women 59; should listen to the recital of Itihāsa 10; should maintain kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and śūdras that cannot maintain themselves 59; should not make litigants wait long 243; should perform two *lakṣa-homas* every year 228;
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should possess characteristics of certain gods 23, should save a portion of his yearly revenue 228; sometimes selected a younger son to succeed him 44; sources from which law was to be found by 100; stages in the education of 51; three greatest qualities in a k. are liberality, truthfulness and valour 46; throne of 82;