State and Government in Ancient India c15.142

c15.142

Sometimes ministers were selected also from the members of the royal family. Thus king Harsha of Kashmir had appointed two sons of a former ruler as his ministers² and the premier of the Chāhamāna ruler Vīsaladeva was his own son Sallakshaṇapāla.³ Selection of ministers from the distant scions of the royal family could not, however, have been very common ; for there was also the danger in such cases that the minister may try to usurp the throne for himself.