Hindu Medicine c10.12
Hindu Medicine c10.12
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c10.12
14 The relation between husband and wife is likewise the model for the bond between the Brahmin, acting as a house-priest and spiritual adviser, and the king or chief, who submits himself to the spiritual guidance and magic protection of the priest. It constitutes the foundation of the cooperation between spiritual authority and temporal power in Indo-Aryan civilization. Cf. Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, *Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power in the Indian Theory of Government*, New Haven, 1942.