[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.s2.73 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s2.73 Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s2.73 - **Language:** English ### [c8.s2.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.73) A categorical list of the calamities providential or otherwise which the \*purohita\* makes effort to avert is given. Fire, or thunder, rain or over-rains, epidemic, famine, pestilence to crops, relinquishment of men, prevalence of diseases, \*bhūta\*, \*piśācha\* and demons, fear of tiger, rats and snakes.² On this account Kālidāsa seems to have used the epithet \*kṛtyavit\* to the \*purohita\* Vasiṣṭha of King Daśaratha.³ In addition to these onerous functions, he was also according to the \*jātakas\* an administrator of justice⁴ and a guardian of king's treasures.⁵ - [Previous: c8.s2.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.72) - [Next: c8.s2.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.74) - [Up: c8.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c8.s2.73) · Pramāṇa