The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c11.11.5

c11.11.5

There seems to have been no election to the assembly, but all important property interests were represented on it. This seems to have made the *sabha* a rather unwieldy body in which the transaction of business with reasonable despatch could only be secured by somewhat drastic rules against organized obstruction on the part of sections of the members. We learn nothing however as to the method of appointing the committee (*vāriyam*) of the assembly which formed the executive of the assembly, each in its respective sphere of work.