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F 28A Series of broken status of Parshvanatha Lopburt
Throughout the kingdom of Farther India (Mahabharat) the system based on the compass was largely supplemented and modified by division into offices of the right and left hand w.r.t the king. The King always faced the east. Civilian officers had their places on the left of the king, officers of the army on his right i.e in the south, because of the planet Mars, which was supposed to be connected with war. From the beginning of he Ayutthyan period until the reforms of Trailok, a century later, there had been simple four court organization of government known as Klang (center) charged for royal treasury, Wang (palace), Muang (royal city) and Na (countryside). The heads of these courts were called Senabodi (senapati).
The southern palace was known as Kalahom, the northern as Mahadthai. The heads of these palaces were called Akkhramaha Seanabodi. Kalahom was assigned authority over the right-ers (Military), and Mahadthai took control over the left-ers (Civil). Wales assumes that Kalahom was a kind of defense department and Mahadthai a home or 'interior ministry. Trailok's reforms consisted of establishment of six chambers headed by a Montri'. The six chambers reported directly to the king and not through four courts. Normally, the king is said to have four queens, a greater and lesser of the left and a greater and lesser of the right with the right position being more honorable than the left. The subordinate administrative units seem to have been
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