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# Hindu Administrative Institutions c9.s3.19

Hindu Administrative Institutions c9.s3.19

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### [c9.s3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c9.s3.19)

In short the state must so regulate its expenditure that there might be no difficulty if it were suddenly faced with calamities of one kind or another.² This sound principle is not peculiar to technical literature only. Texts like those of the \*Rāmāyaṇa\* and the \*Mahābhārata\* contain similar rules. In the \*kacchit sarga\* of the \*Rāmāyaṇa\*³:

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