Theory of Government in Ancient India (Post-Vedic) c6.175

c6.175

¹ Mahābhārata: Śāntiparva, XCIV, 1-2; XCV, 2-5; LXIX, 34-40, 55; LXXXV, 26-28; LXXXVI, 5, 6-15; XCV 7-12, 13-14; XCVI, 1-2; C, 27-29; XCVI, 3-7, 11, 23, 16, 17, 22; XCVII, 8, 11-12; XCVIII, 15-25, 35-48; XCIX, 1-17; C, 6-24, 30; CI, 324-5; CI, CII. Elsewhere, too, the Mahābhārata inculcates fairness on the battlefield. In the Bhīṣma-parva we are told that only persons equally circumstanced should engage in fight,—charioteers against charioteers, horsemen against horsemen and so on. Those engaged in the contest of words should be fought only with words—I, 24-27. The same section of the Bhīṣma-parva inculcates general fairness and humanity on the battlefield.