Public Administration in Ancient India c12.12

c12.12

¹ Sānti Parva, Sec. 80, sls. 25-27. Cf. Plato’s conception of the character of the guardians of the State: “Truth was his leader whom he followed, always and in all things, and his other virtues were courage, magnificence, apprehension, and memory.” Republic, Bk. VI. Cf. also Aristotle: “These are the qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices—(1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative quality; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government.” Politics, V. 9.