History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c95.297

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²⁵⁶³ यथेयं न प्राक् त्वत्तः पुरा विद्या ब्राह्मगान् गच्छति । तस्मादु सर्वेषु लोकेषु क्षत्रस्यैव प्रशासनमभूत् । छा. V 3. 7; यथेय विद्येताः पूर्वं न कस्मिंश्चन ब्राह्मणे उवास । ता त्वहं तुभ्यं वक्ष्यामि । को हि त्वैवं ब्रुवन्तमर्हति प्रत्याख्यातुमिति । बृह. VI. 2. 8. प्रशासन is translated by MaxMuller as 'teaching' in S. B E. Vol. I p. 78 But it is better to take प्रशासन in the sense of 'domination or government,' as is clearly the meaning of the word in Br Up III. 8. 9 एतस्य वा अक्षरस्य प्रशासने गार्गि सूर्याचन्द्रमसौ विधृतौ तिष्ठतः. Besides, there is nothing to show that kṣatriya rulers everywhere were teaching that doctrine (if we take praśāsane to mean (*Continued from last page*) (teaching). Further, this sentence (in Chān V 3. 7. is a boastful assertion like the one of Aśvapati in Chān V. 11. 5. that there was in his country of Kekaya no thief, no miser, no drunkard, no man who had not consecrated sacred fire in his house, no ignorant person and no adulterer.