Hindu Administrative Institutions c7.s7.11

c7.s7.11

Besides the duties chalked out in this programme the *Arthaśāstra* mentions a number of other functions which he was expected to discharge. In the court he was expected to bestow personal and immediate attention to affairs involving temples, heretics, śrotriyas, women, cattle, places of pilgrimage, the young, the aged, the diseased and the helpless. Justice was to be rendered impartially by bestowing equal attention to all irrespective of social status. For the end of justice is to make the people feel happy.³