The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c9.s3.4

c9.s3.4

Of these seven conditions three may be regarded as directly constitutional or political. “So long, O medicants”, said Sâkya, “as the brethren meet together in full and frequent assemblies, — so long as they meet together in concord and rise in concord, and carry out in concord the duties of the Order, \*\*\* so long as the brethren honor and esteem and revere and support the elders of experience and long standing, and hold it a point of duty to hearken to their words, — so long may the brethren be expected not to decline but to prosper.”¹