Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t6.38
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t6.38
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c4.t6.38
The king, as will appear, was regarded as the head of justice. In fact the legends would have us understand, that all the cases were heard and decided by the king in person, as it is always to the king or the Khattiya that the sound maxims quoted above are addressed. This could hardly have been the real state of affairs. Of course, as a rule the king used to hear cases, and we may assume that the king “actually went each morning to the Court house” as in