The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c16.s1.t3.58

c16.s1.t3.58

Duties are thus enforced by *danda*, which also backs the laws. Indeed from the angle of the *prajâ* or *prakriti* (the people in the state), *dharma* as duty is but the obverse of *dharma* as law. What the state calls "laws" are recognized as "duties" by its members as a matter of course. The doctrine of duty is thus identical with that of law turned inside out.