Shri Shiv Chatrapati Caritr 1.6.5

1.6.5

There were gods and shrines at different places in the country, their illumination, food offering, and ablution, were properly maintained, (by granting an allowance) according to the importance of the place. The illumination of, and food offerings to the shrines of Mahomedan saints (qft) and the mosques of the Mahomedans were continued (by state allowance) according to the importance of (each) place. Brahmans reciting the Vedas should be placed in comfortable maintenance and learned Brahmans, Vedic scholars, astrologers, ritualists (^M«|8i?u>), ascetics, and pious men should be selected from every village, and a grant of money and grains should be assigned to each in his own village in the Mahal, according to the size of their (respective) families, and the expense of feeding and clothing them; and it should be arranged that the Karkun should convey their allowance to them every year (regularly). The Brahmans, should subsist on this (grant), continue prescribed baths and prayers (w^ ^3TT)» pray for the Raje's welfare and live happily. In this manner the Raja ruled his kingdom, continuing his enquiries about the forts and the strongholds, the army and the militia, the provinces and the personal staff.