[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985) › c19.s10.49 # The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s10.49 The Inner Conflict of Tradition: Essays in Indian Ritual, Kingship, and Society c19.s10.49 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s10.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10.49) 47. In the \*Dialogus de Scaccario\*, this is indeed made explicit in the obvious comparison with chess-play: “Sicut in lusili pugna committitur inter reges, sic in hoc inter duos principaliter conflictus est et pugna committitur, thesaurarium scilicet et vicecomitem qui assidet ad compotum” (Johnson's edition, 7). At the board the officers of the king's household, like Kautilya's mahāmātras, also sit as witnesses and judges. The difference is, of course, that the English king's household officers are not the same as the vicecomites, while with Kauṭilya it is exactly these persons that are included among the mahāmātras. - [Previous: c19.s10.48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10.48) - [Next: c19.s10.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10.50) - [Up: c19.s10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10.49](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.heesterman-1985.c19.s10.49) · Pramāṇa