History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c14.s2.6

v1.c14.s2.6

The king's darbar was, as in oldest times, the court of justice and kings are described as most zealously hearing every morning the complaints of Arthis or plaintiffs. The vivādas or cases were inquired into with the assistance of fixed jurors who are called stheya and sometimes even these stheyas were partial and just kings by curious artifices found out the truth. In a case of treasure deposited with a person one king is said to have detected misappropriation by the defendant by inspecting the sealed deposit and finding therein rupees stamped with the name of kings who had not even come to the throne at the time of the deposit. This also shows that each king struck coins in his own name when he came to the throne as in these days. The coins are called Dinnāras (with a double n). And these were of gold and silver as well as of copper. The servants of government were paid so many copper Dinnāras a day, a court poet as already stated being described (of course by exaggeration), as receiving one lakh of Dinnāras every day.