The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c7.186

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Justice. At the same time the king is declared immune from punishment. "For Varuṇa Dharmapati (lord of the law)," says the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, "he then prepares a Varuṇa pap of barley, thereby Varuṇa, the lord of the law, makes him lord of the law; and that truly is the supreme state, when one is lord of the law; for whoever attains to the supreme state, to him they come in (matters of law): therefore to

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