The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s2.t2.6

c13.s2.t2.6

The doctrine of Śrīkara, which was handed down by Gopāla in his *Smṛiti-Kāmadhenu* (c 1100) and Lakṣmīdhara in his *Smṛiti-Kalpataru* (c 1159) and was considered important enough to be utilized by Chaṇḍeśvara in his *Rājanīti-Ratnākara* (c 1370), has another part. It runs thus: *Vahunāyakatvādrājyavinaśaścha*. The state may be destroyed on account of the plurality of leaders or rulers. This is a fresh argument against the partition of the state among the king's sons on the lines of the partition of private property. Altogether Śrīkara's logic against the application of the ordinary law of inheritance to the state-affairs is the greatest single contribution of Hindu India to social science in the tenth century.