Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c44.54

c44.54

"And the Rājūkas disregard (*laghanti*=*laṅghanti*) my proclamations, while my (own) subordinate officers [*purushas*, Cf. Artha-Śāstra, p. 245] will promulgate my opinion and orders [*chhandam anāni*: Cf. *āṇam*, Jātaka 1.398]. And they [Rājūkas] will advise the Provinces [*Chakāni*]² which wish to serve the Rājūkas, not me.³ Therefore let me indeed, consign the (Child) Subject [*Pajam*, a pun on the word] to the *viyatā* Nurse [a pun on the word, 'anxious' 'exerting' 'with open arms', and 'separating herself', *i.e.*, from me]. The anxious Nurse becomes tranquil; she wants to defend well my Prājā [pun on *sukham palihaṭave*, 'comfortably to snatch away my Child'].