The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.s1.t2.6

c16.s1.t2.6

Property (*bhoga* plus *mamatva*), then, is a *differentium* between the non-state and the state. And juridically speaking, the property taken cognizance of by the state is *laukika* i. e. worldly, material, or secular, as the *Mitâkṣarâ*, the *Sarasvatî-vilâsa*, and other law-books⁶ make it clear. Thus considered, it is necessarily a' a differ state and the extra-state, e. g. of Bliss in D "beiand a deer to him and jurisdiction in in common or private, it is pertinent to observe that the sacredness of property can be established only by the state through its *danda*.