Tribes in Ancient India c53.88

c53.88

In Prof. Rhys Davids' opinion, no doubt all the more important places had a ‘Mote-Hall’ or ‘pavilion covered with a roof but with no walls in which to conduct their business’. The local affairs of the villages were conducted in open assembly consisting of the householders, ‘held in the groves which, then as now, formed so distinctive a feature of each village in the long and level alluvial plain’.¹ In the time of the Chinese travellers, Fā-Hien, Sung-Yun and Hsüan Tsang, there was no central government at Kapilavastu. There existed a congregation of priests and about ten families of laymen.² Each town appointed its own ruler and there was no supreme ruler.³