Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s3.32

c8.s3.32

In the *Śukranīti*, its functions seem to have been enlarged. It was held responsible for all affairs affecting the state or its subjects in point of arms, finance, sound government and the rooting out of the enemies.⁴ On the procedure of this assembly the *Śukranīti* has interesting observations of which Jayaswal gives us a summary: ‘Without a written document no business of state was done. A matter was endorsed first by the home minister, the lord chief-justice, the minister of