The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c13.s3.t4.3

c13.s3.t4.3

Gopāla (c 1100), the jurist of the *Kāmadhenu* fame, was the author also of a *Rājanīti-Kāmadhenu*. This was utilized by Chaṇḍeśvara of Mithilā (c 1325) in his *Rājanīti-Ratnākara*,²² who quotes likewise Lakṣmīdhara and Śrīkara along with Gopāla as exponents of *rājadhane dīnānāthādisakalaprāṇinām amśītvam* (i.e., cosharership of the poor, orphans and all other "creatures" in the wealth of the king or revenues of the state).