State and Government in Ancient India c18.s1.118

c18.s1.118

Meetings of the Primary Assemblies were also probably convened when matters of unusual importance like the sale of public land to mitigate the miseries of famine were to be considered. Elderly members alone must normally have taken part in the discussion as in ancient Greece. Occasionally, however, persistent opposition was raised by mischievous persons ; for we have a rule made by one Tamil assembly prescribing a fine of five *kāsus* for persons guilty of this mischief.³