Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c10.52

c10.52

¹ Vāyu Purāṇa, ed. Rajendra Lal Mitra, (Bibliotheca Indica Series, Calcutta, 1880), Canto VIII, 60-61, 64-65, 78-80, 84-90, 92-97. For details of constructions, 98-123; for agriculture, 142-143; for caste, 157-159; for the scheme of duties, 161-164; for Āśramas or the fourfold division of Dwija life, 169. The Vāyu Purāṇa holds that the household stage is the root of all Āśramas (173).