Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s3.93

c8.s3.93

We also learn from the Ceylon inscriptions² that all administrative measures were issued by the king-in-council. In the Vevala Katuja inscription of Mahinda IV ‘all these lords who sit in the Royal Council and who have come together in accordance with the mandate delivered by the king-in-council have promulgated these institutions.’ The slab inscriptions of Queen Līlāvati shows the creation of a council of ministers, wise and loyal, who released the kingdom from all dangers.³ Thus whether it was in South India or in the North there was no administration which had not a consultative assembly or council which invariably guided the deliberations of the state.