Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c44.90

c44.90

dhikṛit, Nāgasiṃha, who signs as the Dūtaka. Another grant made by a contemporary of Hastin¹ is signed by a man who has no official title; it is not countersigned by any minister and it is recorded to have been made on the oral order of the ruler. The charter has no *dūtaka* either. It is evident that the grant did not pass through the Council as there was no written order of the ruler. It might have been made from the private lands of the donor.