A question now arises whether brahmins can adopt the profession of a medicineman as in some sruti texts it is prohibited. But it is prohibited for quacks, not for good doctors.
Do you keep track of the eighteen functionaries of the enemies and the fifteen functionaries of your own through your spies? They are ministers, royal priests, crown prince, commander-in-chief, chief warden chamberlain, superintendent of prisons, chancellor of exchequer, the herald, government advocate, judge, assessor, officer in charge of disbursing salary to army-men, one in charge of disbursing salary to officers, the city guardian, the person in charge of the border of the kingdom, the magistrate and the officer in charge of conservation of water, hills, forests .
It may also mean a revenue collector and an officer who kept the council chamber trim, allotted seats to the counsellors according to their ranks and looked to the safety of the counsellors. Last fifteen in the list above form the functionaries of one’s own side (minus the first three).
This is quite a long sarga of eightysix slokas. In it, Rama inquires Bharata about his administration. Bharata has not yet assumed sovereignty. Instead, after performing the obsequies of his father, he set out to the forest where Rama sojourned. It took some forty to sixty days. When such was the short duration, there seems no relevance for Rama’s inquiry on administration at length. Some people well-versed in judicature might have added this. But, Madhavayogin’s ‘Amruta Kataka’ does not go into that question of relevancy. This sarga is called ‘Kacchit Sarga’, as Rama’s inquiry starts with the word ‘Kacchit’, which means ‘have you’ at the beginning of every verse.
Rama’s inquiry 2.100.3-86
A question now arises whether brahmins can adopt the profession of a medicineman as in some sruti texts it is prohibited. But it is prohibited for quacks, not for good doctors.
Do you keep track of the eighteen functionaries of the enemies and the fifteen functionaries of your own through your spies? They are ministers, royal priests, crown prince, commander-in-chief, chief warden chamberlain, superintendent of prisons, chancellor of exchequer, the herald, government advocate, judge, assessor, officer in charge of disbursing salary to army-men, one in charge of disbursing salary to officers, the city guardian, the person in charge of the border of the kingdom, the magistrate and the officer in charge of conservation of water, hills, forests .
It may also mean a revenue collector and an officer who kept the council chamber trim, allotted seats to the counsellors according to their ranks and looked to the safety of the counsellors. Last fifteen in the list above form the functionaries of one’s own side (minus the first three).
This is quite a long sarga of eightysix slokas. In it, Rama inquires Bharata about his administration. Bharata has not yet assumed sovereignty. Instead, after performing the obsequies of his father, he set out to the forest where Rama sojourned. It took some forty to sixty days. When such was the short duration, there seems no relevance for Rama’s inquiry on administration at length. Some people well-versed in judicature might have added this. But, Madhavayogin’s ‘Amruta Kataka’ does not go into that question of relevancy. This sarga is called ‘Kacchit Sarga’, as Rama’s inquiry starts with the word ‘Kacchit’, which means ‘have you’ at the beginning of every verse.