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the burden of duties which lie had imposed on me I exist only before him, and all the good 1 enjoy descends from my raja, whose slave and property I am.

With this unlikely confessional, stylistically psalmlike, the rajas are defamed as external oppressors of the native Balinese bevolking. Yet, prior to his concluding crescendo of excerptable slogans to justify any future occupation of Bali, Van den Broek offers a convincing general description of the state administration which stresses riot helpless victimage but the limits of the raja's power.The scattered account of the state administration commences characteristically with a sweeping generalization, soon belied by Van den Broek's own data:
The manner of government is absolutely despotic or arbitrary; the raja (vorst) decides all affairs, whether criminal or civil, although for external matters he is assisted by a council of important chiefs and by a priest. In affairs of state he consults with the lesser Gusti,s usually his brothers, half-brothers, or cousins.

He captures some of the flavor of repeated court models down through the administrative apparatus without ever clearly distinguishing 'Maha raja' (that is, the Dewa of Klungkung) from rajas of the other kingdoms, from their politically powerful kin, from village-area notables, from administrative aides to the courts (Perbekels), and so on:
The small subordinate rajas (vorstjes) in their own dominions are as arbitrary despots as the higher rajas (Hoofdvorsten), and assume no further responsibility to the latter than to lead the chief warriors when asked.
Lesser lords had to deliver materials or produce from lands to support building projects:

These lesser rajas are usually brothers, uncles, or other near relatives of the upper raja. In the capital city court center itself there are always as well some of the rajas kinsmen who have a certain number of people immediately under them and at their disposal , Such people are independently governed without the interference of the upper raja.
In the conquered lands, as was the case in Jembrana, these rajas are taxable (cijns baar) and must deliver a portion of income to their superior raja. The lesser Gustis, such as the cousins of the raja, make up most of the latter, and occupy one or another position at court

Some of them are chiefs (Hoofden) of sections and have a specific number of neighborhoods (Kampongs) under their management, where they are concerned with the raja's policy and collection of his income, These same functions are also filled by chiefs who are not of royal descent, and these bear the title Perbukkel.
Van den Brock does not sort out all these functionaries. He recoanizes that direct control of local areas by rajas is highly variable. For the peripheral kingdoms of Jembrana and Buleleng, he lists courtly replicas down the status gradations front Hoofdvorsten (whoever they may be) to voorsten, to voorstjes (Gustis), to Hoof den - cacti official boasting an assorted entourage.