[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Administrative Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929) › c6.s5.2 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.s5.2 Hindu Administrative Institutions c6.s5.2 - **Language:** English ### [c6.s5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s5.2) ¹ \*Mbh.\*, \*Ādi\*, 217, st. 5 ; \*Śānti Parvan\*, ch. lvi. 5 ; ch. lxviii. 7. Prakṛti is a technical term in Hindu political literature used in different senses, the ministry, the subjects, the various sovereigns in war, or the constituent elements of a state. Kālidāsa uses it in the first sense, \*Raghu.\*, chap. xxii. 12). Here the celebrated commentator Mallinātha quotes Viśvā for that interpretation ‘प्रकृतिः सहजे योनौ अमात्ये परमात्मनि’ इति विश्वः । Śukra uses it in this sense in several places. Kālidāsa again uses the same term in the second sense, namely, subjects (\*Raghu.\*, viii. 18). In the third sense of sovereigns to be considered in time of war, Manu uses the term एताः प्रकृतयो मूलं मण्डलस्य समासतः । (vii. 156.) In this sense it is largely used. Among these seven again, the minister, the territory, fortresses, treasury and justice are called द्रव्यप्रकृतयः, the very substratum of the state. \*Svāmi\* is the Lord of these five \*dravyaprakṛtis\*. \*Svāmi\* may be king or king's regent. The ministry are the councillors whose - [Previous: c6.s5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s5.1) - [Next: c6.s5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s5.3) - [Up: c6.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s5) ## Cites (3) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.1.217.5) — Sanskrit - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.7.156) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Raghuvaṃśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.rama.raghuvamsa-works.raghuvamsa.8.18) — Kālidāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c6.s5.2) · Pramāṇa