The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c9.s3.14

c9.s3.14

One of these harangues is worded as follows in the *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa* (VIII, 12-15):⁹ "Do ye proclaim him, O Indra, as overlord and overlordship, as paramount ruler and father of paramount rulers, as self-ruler and self-rule, as sovereign and sovereignty, as king and father of kings, as supreme lord and supreme authority." The manifesto goes on in the same strain. The *viṣ* is being told that "the lordly power has been born, the eater of the folk hath been born, the breaker of citadels hath been born, the slayer of *asuras* hath been born, the guardian of the holy power hath been born, the guardian of law hath been born."