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-
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