Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c7.34

c7.34

Among the items of business that the king should personally attend to is mentioned the business concerning the gods, hermits, heretics, learned brahmins (*Śrotriya*), cattle, sacred places, minors, persons disabled by age, disease or misfortune, orphans and women. These he should attend to in the order of this enumeration, or in accordance with its urgency or gravity. In fact, the king is asked to respond to all urgent calls of business which he must dispose of at once without putting it off.