State and Government in Ancient India c15.122

c15.122

Capable and ambitious ministers often held more than one portfolioes, a phenomenon not unknown in our own times. Thus in the cabinet of king Jayasiṁha of Kashmir, Sujji was both the Judicial and Military member. A little later Alaṁkāra was appointed to the post of both the Commander-in-Chief and Chief Justice.² It was, however, only in exceptional cases that the portfolioes were thus allowed to be combined ; normally each minister held the charge of one department only.