Vasudevahindi (cultural history)
by A. P. Jamkhedkar | 1965 | 134,331 words
This essay is an English study of the Vasudevahindi reflecting cultural history and traditions of the life of people in ancient and medieval India during the 6th century. The Vasudevahindi is a romantic and religious tale divided into two parts. The first part is attributed to Sanghadasa (6th century A.D.) and explores the wanderings of Dhammilla a...
17. Policy in Administration
Popular impression about the behaviour of the king is reflected in a couplet in the Vasudevahindi(F): na nivatisu sohiyam 6 thiram,i.a. the friendship of a king is never steady king is said to be difficult to approach and please e 7. � He is described to be vain enough to bear the destruction of 1. Vasudevahindi by Sanghadasa, 317. 3. Ibid., 119- 5. Ibid.; II. 128b, 199b. 7. Ibid. 142. 2. Ibid., 248, 311. 4. Vasudevahindi by Dharmadasa, II.2266. 6. Vasudevahindi by Sanghadasa, 105.
93 families to establish his superiority over his subjects 1, and so much autocratic as to demand the services of any 2 person he liked 2. On the other hand, he is described to equate his own pleasure in the welfare of his subjects 3 (payasuhe suham) and servants 4 Proper exposition of the reasons of this peculiar type of behaviour on the part of the king has been presented in the Vasudevahindi(); it appears there as a piece of advise to Vasudeva from his father-in-law, king Devarisabha 5.