The Mauryan Polity c7.s1.t8.6
The Mauryan Polity c7.s1.t8.6
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c7.s1.t8.6
The *mantripariṣad* of the *Kauṭalīya* was the Council of Ministers whose chief functions are categorically stated: to undertake a new work, to complete the work already begun, to develop other possibilities, and to enforce discipline in the administration. The king usually consulted his counsellors and the assembly of ministers as well, before he finally set his seal of approval or rejection of a certain decision. If an emergency presented itself the king summoned his counsellors and ministers and generally adopted the course of action suggested by them.¹