Local Government in Ancient India c13.170

c13.170

(3) that we shall practise gambling; (4) that we shall cherish prostitution; (5) that we shall take to rash driving on the king's highway; and (6) that we shall worship the ant-hill under the *śākhoṭaka* tree, and so forth'. It is evident that no. (1) cannot be allowed, as being a measure of passive resistance aimed against the state, an attempt to make the administration impossible. Nos. (2), (3), and (4) offend against morality and are therefore illegitimate. No. (5) is dangerous to public safety, while no. (6) is an offence against religion. [See Colebrooke's *Digest of Hindu Law*, vol. II. p. 61.]