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⁵ J., IV, p. 296-G. 59 "Rājāvatā Surāvatā ca attho sampanna sakkhiso bhavanti k'ete." Cf. "As a matter of fact ancient Indian Economics starts with the fundamental assumption that the State is a necessity. If we separate the adventitious accretions made to this idea in later writings, by the substitution of 'Monarch' for the 'State' we shall find that from our earliest literature down to the threshold of our own times there runs through the stream of Indian thought the repeated affirmation of the need of the State, the political community and group organisations." K. V. Rangaswami Aiyangar, *Ancient Indian Economic Thought*, p. 44.