Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c43.119

c43.119

¹ [It probably corresponds also to the *suhṛid* class of *Sabhāsads* mentioned in the opening verse of Chapter 83, along with the *Sahāya* and *Parichchada* classes. Why the representatives of the realm should be called "friends" is not very clear. The political writers have a classification by which they divide the natural friends and natural enemies of kings. Probably the Realm representatives were considered as the king's 'friends,' for unlike an ambitious relative, they were naturally interested in upholding the king's cause.]