Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.134

c41.134

Kṛishṇa Dvaipāyana lays down "when the king has "failed to recover the property taken away by thieves it should "be made good from his own purse (Svakośāt) by the impotent "holder-of-the-country."² *Svakośa* in the inscription of Rudradāman was the private purse as opposed to the public treasury. This being the sense of Dvaipāyana, the compensation realized (according to the corresponding law of Yājñavalkya) by the Jānapada amounted to a personal fine on the king.³