Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c13.56

c13.56

In the course of a long discourse, the wise old minister Śukanāsa warns the heir-apparent Candrāpīḍa of the dangers of royal power and gives him plenty of excellent advice. He deprecates the idea of king's thinking of themselves as divine beings. He wants them particularly to avoid flatterers who extol them as divine.²