Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s1.34

c8.s1.34

Further those princes who are unjustly treated by the kings could leave the state and work in gold or ruby mines, or join with their maternal relatives and begin intriguing against the monarch.² By way of illustration we can say that the Pāṇḍavās took to various callings at *Virāṭa nagara* and joined finally Kṛṣṇa who was their near relative through their mother.