Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s3.39

c8.s3.39

To this procedure Kauṭalya adds that if some members are to absent themselves being away from the city or otherwise, their opinions too must be taken by the use of special writs.³ This is surely not vote by proxy as some would suggest. But the point is that they might offer some useful counsel. Their opinions would be discussed as those of others who were present and a unanimous decision was arrived at.