The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s2.t2.3

c13.s2.t2.3

The doctrine quoted by Chaṇḍeśvara runs thus: *rājadhane dīnānāthādisakalaprāṇinām aṁśītvam*. The poor, the orphans, and all other creatures are *amśī* or co-sharers with the king in his wealth, property or revenues. It is on this argument that a state cannot be partitioned between the sons just as ordinary property can be (*Rājyam abibhājyam*). The recognition of this distinction between personal property and the state in a categorical manner marks a great progress in political thought. We touch the concept of an abstract political organism which is independent of dynasties, individual attributes and personal equations. The unknown or rather lost treatise of Śrīkara is thus to be credited with having propounded a tenet of major importance in the world’s political speculations.