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Tribes in Ancient India c61.s5.26

Tribes in Ancient India c61.s5.26

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c61.s5.26

The Tibetan works mention a Nāyaka who was the chief magistrate of the Licchavis and ‘was elected by the people or rather by the ruling clans of Licchavis’.⁴ We do not know exactly what his functions were; perhaps he was an executive officer for carrying out the decisions of the assembly.