Hindu Administrative Institutions c7.s7.82

c7.s7.82

It might be noted that the system of writs was a regular feature of the administration commencing with the Mauryas. The officer in charge of the writs was a man of no mean capabilities. Kauṭalya lays down that he who possessed the qualifications of a minister, wrote a legible and intelligible hand, was smart in composition and reading and knew practically the genealogies of all chieftains and kings with whom the state had intercourse, was alone fit for this post.¹