The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c18.120

c18.120

'shall, therefore, attend personally to the business of gods, of heretics, of Brahmans learned in the Vedas, of cattle, of sacred places, of minors, the aged, the afflicted, and the helpless, and of women; all this in order of enumeration, or according to the urgency or pressure of those works.

'All urgent calls he shall hear at once, but never put off; for when postponed, they will prove too hard or impossible to accomplish'.⁵