महाराणा सांगा: द हिन्दूपत (हरविलास सारदा - मेवाड़ साम्राज्य एवं खानवा महायुद्ध इतिहास)

Maharana Sāngā. midst of the battle from the elephant's howda to the back of a horse, on the treacherous advice of the traitor, Khalilullah Khan. That accidents could have such decisive influence on matters of such transcending national importance was due chiefly to the political consciousness of the people having become dormant. Swadharma, the duty of the individual to the State, to the nation, to the country in its broadest aspects, had come to mean devotion to the person of the sovereign for the time being and nothing more. This contraction of the meaning of the term Swadharma, this restrictive appli- cation of it accorded with the facts of life in the country, where the rights of the individuals comprising the nation became merged, not in the right of the State as with the military nations of the European conti- nent, but into the will of the person occupy- ing the throne for the time being. The king being the sole arbiter of the des- tinies of a nation, the only source of power, his personality counted for all even in a battle. He being the head—real and not a figure- 149