The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t6.10

c14.s9.t6.10

2. The Appreciation of kingship. Mitra-Miśra quotes the *Kālikā Purāṇa* which says that the king is the son of the sonless, the wealth of the unwealthy, the mother of the motherless, the father of the fatherless, the shelter or help of the unprotected, the husband of the husbandless, the servant of the servantless (*abhrityasya nripo bhrityah*), and the comrade of men (*nripa eva nriṇām sakhā*) (p. 30).