Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c44.3

c44.3

§ 311. The duty of the Ministry is summed up in these terms: "If the State, the People, the Strength, the Exchequer, and lastly Proper Monarchism (*su-nṛipatvam*) do not grow, or the Enemy is not broken through the policy of the ministry, the ministers do not justify their existence (lit., 'of what use are they' ?)."¹