1. Protection of Praja : To protect his state and his subject (Praja) from invaders and keep them happy.
2. Protection of Social System : To protect and enhance social system and culture. They need to protect and interests of various groups and ensure that they perform their social and official duties without fear.
3. Accessibility : To be easily accessible to their subject at all times.
4. Social Upliftment : They went around in their kingdom to get the first-hand information. They believed in principle of social justice and help the poor, widows and disabled people.
5. Timely Redressal : They gave quick justice to aggrieved people. Justice was never denied. In ancient times, a king had placed a gong at the gate of his palace and any aggrieved person could sound the gong at any time and get justice.
6. Charity : They did many things for the benefit of people like building roads, planting trees, building ‘dharmashalas’, schools, hospitals etc.
7. Financial Management : They used to collect taxes according the production, when there was good harvest, but in case of drought, the taxes were reduced.
8. Increasing Trade : They encouraged trade among different kingdoms. Traders from other countries were welcome. Some of them were given protection also.
9. Transparency : They were transparent in their dealings. They had many courtiers and ‘darbaarees’. All the decisions were taken with the consensus of ‘darbaarees’.
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