Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t3.14
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t3.14
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c4.t3.14
Another capricious tyrant takes a dislike for all old things and makes a cruel sport of old men and women who have therefore to leave his kingdom.⁶ A king falls in love with the wife of a hermit. "Well", thinks he, "if I seize her by my sovereign power (*issariya balena*) what will he do ? I will take her then". And he orders one of his suites to carry her away to the palace, inspite of her complaints and cries that lawlessness and wrong were the world's way.⁷