History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.1031

v4.c64.1031

Kings, abdicated in favour of their sons and became hermits 101-102; assumed other names after coronation 82; checks that regulated and mitigated the absolute power of 96-97, 176; examples of k. killed by their subjects 52; examples of k. that suffered from some failing or other 53; historic examples of the election of k. 30-31; ideal of *vijigīṣu* placed before 218; many k. are mentioned in the Ṛgveda 63; most harmful vices of 53-54; of three grades 70; persons of all varṇas became 38; privileges of 175; relative harmfulness of different vices of 53-54; rise and fall of, depends on planets 126; seven principal vices of 54; should take care against treachery from ministers and officials 85; six evil tendencies of 52-53; stories of k. killed for their tyranny 26; stories of k. that perished through lack of *vinaya* 52, 53n; that met death in their queen's chambers 85; that met death or misfortunes through their carelessness or the stratagems of those around them 86; vices of kings 53-54; warned against being poisoned 83; will be mostly śūdras in the Kali age acc. to the Purāṇas 40.