The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c12.7

c12.7

¹ Inconvenient councillors the king gets rid of, probably often on his accession to the throne, on which occasion, as mentioned in the Darimukha Jâtaka, he "examines the offices of the ministers and the duties assigned to them" (amaccânaṃ ṭhânantarâni vicâretvâ, III, 239)