Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t1.69
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t1.69
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c4.t1.69
Under such an unjust king three kinds of fear overcome men, viz., fear of famine, fear of pestilence and fear of the sword.¹ An oppressive ruler is held responsible for all the miseries of mankind. An old man's foot is pierced with a thorn—it is due to the king; the poor anxious mother of two grown-up but unmarried daughters falls down from a tree and cries out in frantic anger: