Public Administration in Ancient India c10.99

c10.99

¹ Hiuen Tsiang says: "If it was necessary to transact business, he employed couriers who continually went and returned. If there was any irregularity in the manners of the people of the cities, he went amongst them. Wherever he moved he dwelt in a ready-made building during his sojourn. During the excessive rains of the three months he would not travel thus. . . ." Buddhist Records, Bk. IV. King Harsha was visiting different parts of the country, when he came to know of Hiuen Tsiang's presence in Kāmarūpa. In one of the Ceylon inscriptions we find that King Nissanka Malla not only "constantly viewed with the eyes of spies his own kingdom," but went on a tour of inspection through the three Kingdoms of Ceylon, visiting the villages, towns, cities and palaces difficult of access through water, hills, forests and marshes." Epigraphia Zeylanica, Vol. II. No. 1713.