12 B. Their administration

1. The king ("Malla") — the Khasa rulers strikingly used the Malla suffix (sharing the era's imperial idiom) with royal eulogies in Sanskrit; government travelled with the court.2. Territorial rule through royal kin and military chiefs — princes and commanders holding districts and forts (kot), bound by service tenure — the highland ancestor of the jagir principle.3. Military organisation: the empire's spine — hardy highland infantry and hill cavalry; the road-and-pass control of the Tibet trade (salt, wool, grain) as both revenue and strategy.4. Revenue: land tax in kind from the terraced highlands, tolls and monopoly profits on Trans-Himalayan trade via Taklakhor and other passes; grants to temples and brahmins recorded on stone and copper (the surviving abhilekh).5. Religious policy: plural — Shaiva temples at Sinja alongside Buddhist patronage (some kings' inscriptions record Buddhist dedications); the Dullu-Sinja corridor's Sanskrit culture with a Tibetan-Buddhist interface.6. Justice and law: the king's court with customary (and partially Sanskritised) norms; the hill mukhiya/khiyap tradition of local headmen later famous in the far-west.