Hindu Administrative Institutions c7.s7.8

c7.s7.8

But this programme was not in any manner rigid and inelastic. It was subject to modification if necessity demanded.¹ Such a heavy programme could not have been realized in practice if the king lacked in the quality of उत्थान (activity).² That the king must, therefore, possess this in an eminent degree is repeated by Kauṭalya in several places. In the later Mughal empire we are told that Aurangazeb the great emperor was ever active and hardly found time even to sleep for a few hours continuously.