Abstract: The Indians think in a different way. Their philosophy, value systems, culture are different from the western counterparts. The political history of the Occident bore evidences that the centre of their life was the achievement of power. Thus, to the west, State attained a pivotal role and the system of power revolved round the State. In India, the centre of life was the society and not the state. In pre British India we can find a ruling power like a king or emperor but he was only a ruler .The development and the welfare of the common people were vested only on the society. Arthasastra and Manusamhita bore evidences of some specific duties and general duties to be performed by the people for the all round development of the society. S.K.Mitra in his book The Ethics of the Hindus stated that Manu distinguished between relative duties (varṇāśrama dharmas), i.e., duties relative to one‟s station of life, and common duties (sādhāraṇadharmas), i.e., duties of universal scope and validity. The relative duties are the specific duties relating to one‟s station in life, i.e., one‟s station as determined by one‟s varṇa or caste and one‟s āśrama or particular stages of life. The universal duties are the duties irrespective of one‟s age, caste, or creed, i.e
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