The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s9.t8.5

c14.s9.t8.5

In one passage the Edict says that many soldiers firmly believed that "the servants whose lives are lost in the cause of their master attain that state which even the sages and *yogins* do not reach and went to heaven whilst fighting in the cause of their master in accordance with the duties of *Kṣatra*" (p. 5). Students of *Śukranīti* and other *nītiśāstras* like those of Mitra-Miśra and Vaiśampāyana will be interested to see how powerfully the Maratha mind was influenced by the traditional Hindu political speculations.