Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s3.85

c8.s3.85

He who does not speak the truth, though possessing all the other qualifications, who has intercourse with the enemies of the state, who has no interest in the progress of his own, who is not versed in the sciences, not pure, who is insensible (स्तब्ध), serves the enemies, a braggart, unfriendly, full of the passion of anger and unsatiated desire, an alien though fully qualified, whose father has been unjustly banished though recalled afterwards, and whose property has been confiscated for slight offences. The following is again the categorical list of those fit for consultation. He who is shrewd, with a good grasp and learned, a citizen of the land, pure, and honest of purpose, possessed of wisdom and intelligence, able to understand friends and foes, devoted to the king, truthful, well-behaved, of great dignity, sweet and soft, hereditary, he who is contented, agreeable, skilful, is afraid of *adharma*, versed in *mantra* and time and *nīti*, heroic, controlling the world by *sāma* and *dāna*, confided by the *paura* and the *jānapada* bodies.¹ These resemble in the main the ministerial qualifications given by law-givers like Manu and Yājñavalkya.²