Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c5.4

c5.4

¹ Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, VIII, 25. Macdonell and Keith, Vedic Index, II, 84, 228, 5. The Purohita secures the fall of rain for the crops, says the Ṛigveda (X, 98). Vedic literature has preserved some record of quarrels which occasionally arose between kings and priests but theory never questions the right of the latter to occupy a transcendent position.