The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.s1.t3.42

c16.s1.t3.42

The dignity of justice has been declared by Manu¹ in the following terms: "If justice is violated, it destroys the state, if preserved, it maintains the state. Therefore justice must not be destroyed". Such sentiments in the *Manu Samhitâ* could be bodily incorporated in the writings of a Jonas or an Alcuin of the ninth century and other mediaeval European theorists² with whom the maintenance of justice is the *sine qua non* of the state and kingship.