Hindu Administrative Institutions c5.19

c5.19

The kind of organization required to carry on an administration such as is projected above, ought to be one of absolute impartiality, and above all suspicion in that particular. It is with a view to this that the original compact is made to provide, and place on an immutable basis, the emoluments of the sovereign ruler, whose function it was to assure the impartial administration of Daṇḍanīti. The question would naturally arise as to the guarantee that the person thus entrusted with the administration, assured of ample provision for himself, could give for the carrying on of the administration in the public interest and not degenerate into one who conducted it in his own individual interest. This was assured to Hindu society in various ways. The administration and the administrative machinery was not