Ancient Indian Epic Mahabharata And The Great Indian Polity

INTRODUCTION
In the history of political principles, India, like Greek, developed its principles in ancient times which may be still favourably compared to most of the principles existed in the world. Ancient Indian political thinker have developed their own tools to understand Indian Political Infrastructure and Political Obligation. To have a political obligation is to have a moral duty to obey the laws of one’s state. Political thoughts or political obligations have been significantly represented by Great Indian Epic Mahabharata which is considered as the great text of ancient Indian Polity. It deals with many political facts and abundant materials are available on political science in it. In Mahabharata an important part, from the political viewpoint is the Shanti Parva which beautifully explains Governance as integral part of all the societies. The Mahabharata theorists appraises Bhishma’s discourses in the Shanti Parva as its most authoritative exposition of Rajadharma, Dandniti, Shasanpadhiti, origin of state etc.
Mahabharata is one of the

It states that there was a contract of people to get rid of sinfulness. It states that the state emerged on the grounds that when sinfulness prevailed in the world, men cannot enjoy his own property and family. It states that in the absence of King, inter-mixture of castes may also take place. Shanti parva also described that because of absence of authority Dharma will be replaced by Adharma and it is the duty of the King to maintain dharma which signifies the defense of social order based of family, property and caste system. This can be summarized that in the state of nature, the necessity to uphold dharma, protection of property, family and varnashram by the king lead to the creation of state. The essence of ruler ship lies in dharma, the king should realize that there is nothing higher than dharma and always abide by