Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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LAWS OF MANU.
VII, 113.
113. In governing his kingdom let him always observe the (following) rules; for a king who governs his kingdom well, easily prospers.
114. Let him place a company of soldiers, commanded (by a trusty officer), in the midst of two, three, five or hundreds of villages, (to be) a protection of the kingdom.
115. Let him appoint a lord over (each) village, as well as lords of ten villages, lords of twenty, lords of a hundred, and lords of a thousand.
116. The lord of one village himself shall inform the lord of ten villages of the crimes committed in his village, and the ruler of ten (shall make his report) to the ruler of twenty.
117. But the ruler of twenty shall report all such (matters) to the lord of a hundred, and the lord of a hundred shall himself give information to the lord of a thousand.
118. Those (articles) which the villagers ought to furnish daily to the king, such as food, drink, and fuel, the lord of one village shall obtain.
114. Kull. says, in the midst of two, three, or five hundred villages.' Når. remarks that the plural hundreds' is used in order to leave the number doubtful. It is, however, not impossible that here, as elsewhere in ancient Sanskrit, satânam means 'a hundred.' Medh. explains samgraha, protection,' by an official,' or 'a royal granary.' Gov. states correctly that the pickets mentioned are the so-called Sthanakas, the Thânâs of modern India.
115-124. Ap. II, 26, 4-5; VI. III, 7-15; Yâgñ. I, 337.
116. The rule refers, as Medh., Gov., Kull., and Rågh. remark, to offences with which the persons who report them, are unable to deal. Nâr. thinks that chiefly refusals to pay the revenue or disputes on such matters are meant.
118. The lord of one village is apparently the modern Paril, the Pattakîla or Gråmakata of the inscriptions, and the articles to be furnished to him the so-called 'haks.' The other officials correspond
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