[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Administrative Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929) › c8.s2.59 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s2.59 Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s2.59 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s2.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.59) We saw in the \*Vedic\* texts that one of his functions was to follow the king to the theatre of war and encourage the warriors now and then to rise equal to the occasion. In the chapter on encampment on the eve of the war¹ four divisions of the camp are mentioned and in the first are the \*purohita\* and the Prime Minister. The \*purohita\* encourages the army by quoting \*Vedic\* authority as to the final goal of brave men in the field.² ‘Such of those places which the heaven-desiring Brahmans reach with their sacrificial utensils through several \*yajnas\* and penances, are attained immediately by the warriors who give up their lives heroically in battles for a good cause. That soldier who having eaten of the salt of his master would not fight is sure to go to hell and be deprived of the consecrated vessel of water covered over with \*darbha\*-grass.’ Here we are reminded of the poet-bards mentioned in the Tamil texts of the \*Śangam\* epoch. These were called \*pāṇar\*. Their duty was to sing the - [Previous: c8.s2.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.58) - [Next: c8.s2.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.60) - [Up: c8.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.59) · Pramāṇa