The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c15.s2.5

c15.s2.5

Some of these attitudes, relations or contacts are described under the complex of *saptāmga*, the seven-limbed organism (*Kauṭaliya* VI. i, VIII, I, Viṣṇu III, 33, Śukra, I, lines 121-124, V, 1-2, Kāmandaka, 1, 16, IV, 1). Here we are presented with the theory of the constitution involving as it does the analysis of the *svāmī* (ruler), the *amātya* (minister or councillor), the *suhrit* (ally), the *koṣa* (treasure), the *rāṣṭra* (territory), the *durga* (fort) and the *vala* (army). The analysis of these seven categories is not the only topic of Hindu philosophy in political science. Then there are the problems, among others, of *aiśvarya* (sovereignty) which have also demanded the attention of the theorists. And here we encounter the Hindu theory of the state. In this analysis, likewise, the authors have given currency to a number of characteristic categories.