The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c12.s13.3

c12.s13.3

Among the Romans this *Risi*-cult as the doctrine of universal reason and law was taken over by Cicero³⁵ (B.C. 106-43). The *pax sārvabhaumicā* (peace of the *sārvabhauma* state or world-empire) of Hindu idealists found shape, so to say, in the Ciceronian doctrine of universal monarchy.³⁶ The most philosophical—Stoic—of all the Roman intellectuals was Seneca³⁷ (B.C. 4-65 A.C.), the contemporary of Jesus and Aśvaghoṣa (?). Seneca's *De Clementia* (55 A.C.) taught the king in the right *nīti* style of Manu that he should remember that he out of all mankind has been chosen to act in the place of the gods and that the life and death, the fate and lot of all men were in his hands.³⁸