Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s10.145
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s10.145
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c9.s10.145
The second check was supplied by the ministers individually or in council, and village headmen who aided in the consecration of the king and whom the king consulted on important occasions. In the Vedic texts the *Sūta* and the *Grāmaṇī* are styled *Rājakartṛi* or *Rājakṛit*, i.e., King-maker, “*Rajakṛitaḥ Sūta-Grāmaṇyaḥ*.”¹ The very title indicates their importance in the body politic. They, as well as the other *Ratnins*, figure prominently in the sacrifice of royal inauguration.