Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c44.38

c44.38

² मन्त्रिराजव्यसनयोर्मन्त्रिण्यसनं गरीय इति। मन्त्रो मन्त्रफलावाप्तिः कर्मानुष्ठानमायव्ययकर्म दण्डप्रणयनममित्र्राटवीप्रतिषेधो राज्यरक्षणं व्यसन-प्रतीकारः कुमाररक्षणमभिषेकश्च कुमाराणा-मायत्तमामात्येषु। Quotation in Kauṭilya, VIII. 1. 127, p. 320. This jurisdiction is not controverted by Kauṭilya who says that as the 'Board of Ministers' and the Departments are designed by the king, and he stops degeneration in them, that the king is more important. Mr. Shama Sastry has missed the meaning of *āyatta*. Its technical meaning as in law-books is given here (see § 323).