Ministers
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ministers · council of ministers · family priest · seven or eight ministers · the ministers
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
The king's counselors who advise restraint in following Rāma too far.
"One who wishes him to return should not follow him far" — thus the ministers spoke their word to the great king Daśaratha.
"This entire council of ministers, our father's perpetual [retinue], is honoured, O tiger among men;
"In a case of calamity affecting alike the wealthy and the destitute, O Rāghava, do your widely-learned ministers decide the matter without partiality?
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
The king's council of ministers and family priest who assist in judicial examination.
The king who, accompanied by the *prāḍvivāka*, ministers, Brahmin priest, and assessors, acts as an observer according to *dharma*, abides in heaven.
A king should appoint as his minister a Brahmin who knows the meaning of all sacred treatises, is not greedy, speaks justly, is wise, and has come through hereditary succession.
The king, together with his ministers and family priest, should examine legal disputes according to the treatise on *dharma* for the protection of his subjects, being free from anger and greed, truthful and self-controlled.
Manusmṛti
The hereditary, learned, brave advisers appointed by the king to deliberate on policy.
how much more so a kingdom of great prosperity, especially without assistance.
He should also appoint other ministers who are pure, wise, and steadfast, who are excellent collectors of revenue, and who are well-tested.
He should appoint seven or eight ministers who are hereditary, learned in the sacred treatises, brave, skilled in arms, of noble birth, and well-tested.