Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c43.133

c43.133

into three classes in the Civil List which fixes the salaries of the permanent officers from the King down to the Historiographer and the Ministerial Establishments. The King's salary according to Apastamba should not exceed that of the "Amātyas and the *Gurus* (religious Preceptors)"³. This provision becomes clear in the light of the Artha-Śāstra Civil List. Kauṭilya says that the King is to get three times the salary of the officers of his equal acquirement (*samāna-vidya*).¹ We may regard the Prime-Minister and the Senāpati as *Samānavidya* to the king. The religious chiefs who are placed at the head of the first class of the Civil List are *Ṛitvik* and *Āchārya*. These two with the Purohita are the *Gurus* of Āpastamba. The salaries of these three put together, or the three highest ministers namely, Mantrin, Senāpati and Yuvarāja of Kauṭilya's list, should not be exceeded, in the language of Āpastamba, by that of the king. In other words, the two provisions are identical. Now the salary of the 'Gurus' and 'Amātyas' was 48,000—(silver) *paṇas* a year each.∗ The same salary is allowed to the mother of the King and the consecrated Queen.