188 Appendix to Account of Hindu Courts of Justice. 



§ 9. Ministers of State. 



" When tired of overlooking the affairs of men, let the king assign the station of 

 inspector to a principal minister, who well knows his duty, who is eminently learned, 

 whose passions are subdued, and whose birth is exalted.* 



" Let the king appoint for his counsellor a priest or a twice-born man, perfectly con- 

 versant with the sense of all the sacred institutes, devoid of avarice, a just speaker, 

 intelligent, and who has been uniformly employed in the royal service.-)- 



" The king must appoint seven or eight ministers, who must be sworn ; men who 

 are hereditary servants of the throne, who are versed in holy books, who are personally 

 brave, who are skilled in the use of weapons, whose lineage is noble.J 



" Although the text specify a priest, the word twice-born is nevertheless added, to 

 show that, for want of such a learned priest, the king may appoint for his minister a 

 csJiatriya, or a vais'ya, but not a s'udra. 



" Minister is here expressed in the singular number with an indefinite sense ; for it 

 is only meant to enjoin the appointment (not to prescribe the number), and Menu 

 directs the king to repair to the court with many counsellors.''^ 



§ 10. Officers of the Court. 



" They who are subordinate to the court are properly called the king's officers ; the 

 accountant and the scribe are likewise officers of the court. All these the king should 

 require to attend the judicial assembly. || 



" Two persons, versed in grammar and language, skilled in computation, pure in 

 conduct, and well acquainted with various modes of writing, should be appointed by 

 the king to be respectively accountant and scribe.H 



" The king should appoint as accountant one who is versed in the three branches of 

 mathematics, who is clearly deserving of trust, and wlio is conversant with sciences and 

 sacred studies.** 



" Let him appoint, as scribe, one whose diction is unambiguous, whose hand-writing 

 is fair, and who is honest, placid, disinterested, and strictly veracious.** 



" A man of the servile tribe, wlio has been uniforndy employed in the king's service, 

 and will be firm and strictly obedient to the judges, should be appointed by the king to 

 be keeper of things claimed and enforcer of the recovery.** 



" A man of strict veracity must be nominated by the king as his own officer, under 

 tlie control of the judge, to summon the parties, to hold them in custody, and to seek 

 their witnesses.ff 



" He who recreates the plaintiff and defendant, the judges, the scribe, and the accoun- 

 tant, with discourses on morality, holds the office of moderator of the court.ifl 



" The accountant should be a person versed in the science of astronomy, compre- 



* Mem, 7. 141. f Vijisa, citeJ in Sm. Cli. t Menu, 7. 5-J. 



§ Div. Bh. in Sm. Ch. || Catjayana, cited in Calp. t VrJmspali, cited in Sm. Ch. and Madh. 



** Vi/asa, cited in the same. f f Vnliaspali, cited in the same. XX ^^i'sa, ib. 



