Kings

The kings of England had a claim to sovereignty upon this ground.

In fact, the term “sovereignty,” was sacrilegiously stolen from the attributes of God, and impiously assumed by kings.

it will then be necessary to enquire upon whom the splendid donation has been bestowed, whether on kings, on governments, or on the people;

There are suits of homicide and of wounding:

The king also brings in the leases of the sacred precincts, recorded on whitened tablets.

Before him too are brought all the suits of homicide, and it is he who proclaims that a man is excluded from the customary rites.

As horses stand ready beside a chariot, so may kings attend upon you — to speak forth at assemblies.

but kings are from Zeus.

Pattern after the character of kings, and follow closely their ways.

Kings, however, have no such help;

First, then, we must consider what is the function of kings;

for all these qualities should be found in wise legislation.

Kings take the towns by storm,

Many amid their slumbers talk about

With mighty motions mighty enterprises,

By what force, fraud, and conspiracy, on the part of kings, nobles, and “a few wealthy freeholders,” these pillars have been prostrated in England, it is designed to show more fully in the next volume, if it should be necessary.

” From this feeling kings have wept over their own power, and the greatness of their fortune has not delighted them, but the end one day to come has struck them with dread.

Accordingly, when monarchs in search of revenue took on themselves to grant monopolies, they found themselves in acute conflict with the people and with the lawyers;

The king may enter on a subject’s land, in time of war within the realm, for reasons of military necessity, but by way of excusable temporary intrusion, not of acquisition.

The king who, out of greed or fear, does not kill wrongdoers, / his kingdom becomes agitated, and he is deprived of his realm.

He who kills others by means of bondage, fire, poison, or a weapon, / for a reason such as anger, that man is a violent criminal.

For the sake of gaining a friend or for profit, by a king who desires the welfare of the world, / violent criminals, who are a terror to all people, should not be released.

The great-souled kings too praised Rāghava:

these and many other sages of sharpened vows, and kings — those tigers among men — all assembled together.

And the sages who had gathered at the sacrificial enclosure, as well as the kings, those tigers among men, could not cease from their amazement.

On the other hand, when the courtesan thinks that her lover is about to receive valuable presents;

That he has become wealthy, has secured a higher position, and holds a place of authority under the King.

"In considering her present gains, and her future welfare, a courtesan should avoid such persons as have gained their means of subsistence with very great difficulty, as also those who have become selfish and hard-hearted by becoming the favourites of Kings.