The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c15.s3.9

c15.s3.9

For normal times, however, i. e. as long as the people are paying the piper and the piper is willing to play the tune called for, Kâmandaka and other Hindu theorists have made provision for a considerable amount of revenue. It is not a slight Theocritean burden of taxation that the *nîti-śâstras* have in view, for the state conceived by them is not a primitive polity with functions of an idyllic character. Manifold are the services, as we have seen, rendered by the state in Hindu theory;