Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c6.121

c6.121

The Government should control drinking shops, public women, gamblers and keepers of gaming houses, pimps, actors and other such people. While the Government must ceaselessly foster righteousness and look after the moral welfare of its wards, it is not to aim at uniformity of law and custom. The Mahâbhârata expressly forbids the king to exterminate the special customs of families or old countries.¹