Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c8.192

c8.192

The king should also watch over the gambling houses and draw his share of the profits from them (Y. 2, 200; Nār. 17, 8). These and similar probably highly lucrative sources of income for the royal treasury will be dealt with in the State Antiquities¹; I wish to point out here that the king himself appears as an industry captain, inasmuch as not only the whole or at least half of the profits of the mines belong to him (Vi. 3, 55; M. 8, 39), and even factories are run by him (M. 7, 62) and the production and the sale e. g. of saffron in Kashmir, precious stones in the south, horses in the west, fine stuffs and wool in the east and elephants always belong to the royal monopolies (Medh. on M. 8, 399).