The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t4.33

c14.s9.t4.33

It does not take anybody acquainted even cursorily with the Hindu *artha*, *smriti* and *nītiśāstras* long to understand that Abul Fazl is reproducing the most fundamental concept of the king's functions *vis-à-vis chāturvarṇya* (the four-ordered social polity). It is curious that no modern scholar seems to have even suspected that the words, phrases and sentences of a philosophical, theoretical or general character in all these paragraphs are almost *verbatim* copies from the *Manu Samhitā* ch. VIII (*Rājadharma*).