The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c11.s7.6

c11.s7.6

Both Sénart and Breloer have managed to ignore the *daṇḍa*, the punishment, the "sanction," which keeps the castes or the social orders each to its *svadharma* or discharge of one's own duties. And the *daṇḍa* is wielded by the state through its executive, the King. The Hindu theory of state is based on the *dictum*, no *daṇḍa*, no *dharma*, i.e., no king, no society. It is the state that is personified in the king as one of its seven limbs. In other words, the right attitude in regard to Hindu politics would consist in admitting that there is no society, morality, duty etc., possible without state. The state is the "cause" of social order.³³