Rājadharma
idea · 1 work · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
rājadharma · statecraft · counsel · duties of kingship · duty of a king · duty of a protecting king · protector of the dharma of his people · the king as root of dharma · the king's dharma
spoken of as
1 expressionKingship and its duty“rājadharma”1 mention
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa (Sanskrit)
"The king is dharma, and kāma, and the supreme treasury of wealth;
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The doctrine of a king's eternal duty, including justified violence against the unrighteous, invoked to override Rāma's scruple.
"This is the eternal duty of those charged with the burden of kingship.
"By these and many other great-souled royal heroes, women devoted to unrighteousness have been slain by the best of men.
"And formerly, O Rāma, Viṣṇu slew the wife of Bhṛgu, Kāvya's mother, firm in her vows, when she sought to make a world without Indra.