Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t4.47

c4.t4.47

Sometimes, he is shown as settling the prices with dealers and merchants like the horse-dealers from the North.³ Even here, if he did not act to the pleasure of the king, he was deposed and another 'amacca' was appointed for the work, though his status as an adviser did not diminish at all, and he might again capture his former office.⁴ Such was the irregular, uncertain and vague nature of administrative affairs in those days when the king was anything and everything.