The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s2.4

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c9.s2.4

The *Rig Veda* (X, 173) furnishes us with a hymn sung on the occasion of installing an elected king. It speaks of the steadfastness of the rock, Indra, the heaven, the earth, and the mountain, and it calls upon the king to be true or loyal to the viṣ (folk).

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Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit