THE DUTY OF A CITY

LIKE the Collector-general, the Officer in charge of the Capital City (Ndgaraka) shall look to the affairs of the capital.

A Gopa shall keep the accounts of ten households, twenty households, or forty households. He shall not only know the caste, gotra, the name, and occupation of both men and women in those households, but also ascertain their income and expenditure.

Likewise, the officer known as Sthdnika shall attend to the accounts of the four quarters of the capital.

Managers of charitable institutions shall send information (to Gopa or Sthdnika) as to any heretics (Pdshanda) and travellers arriving to reside therein. They shall allow ascetics and men learned in the Vedas to reside in such places only when those

persons are known to be of reliable character.

Artisans and other handicraftsmen may, on their own responsibility, allow others of their own profession to reside where they carry on their own work (i.e., in their own houses).

Similarly merchants may on their own responsibility allow other merchants to reside where they themselves carry on their mercantile work (i.e., their own houses or shops).