Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.45

c41.45

§ 268. The king according to the Mahā-Bhārata had to invest only that minister with the jurisdiction of mantra or state policy and government (daṇḍa), that is, the powers of the Premier (mantrin), who has legally earned the confidence of the Paura-Jānapada.² Resolutions on state policy having been discussed by the cabinet of ministers with the king, had to be submitted to the Rāshtra, that is, the Jānapada, for their opinion (lit., to show दर्शयेत् ), through the Rāshtriya or the President of the Rāshtra or Jānapada.³ This was necessary especially because grant of extraordinary taxes, as we shall presently see, was in their hands.