Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s2.58

c8.s2.58

It may be argued that the high salary allowed by Kauṭalya to the *purohita* does not necessarily mean that the latter was one of the *amātyas*. For the Archbishop of Canterbury draws a princely salary but surely for that reason one cannot claim for him a place in the cabinet of ministers. It is wrong to judge ancient Indian facts by modern standards. There is no comparison between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the *purohita* of the ancient Indian state. That the latter was an influential factor of the Hindu cabinets no one can deny. To this extent Kauṭalya gives unmistakably a place to him. He was an important limb of the Government.