State and Government in Ancient India c18.s1.72

c18.s1.72

Sub-committees of the Chola type did not probably function in northern India as well. Here the village council consisted of five members only ; it is expressly called a *pañchamaṇḍalī* in a Gupta inscription⁴ and *pañchakuli*, in several medieval records.¹ Sub-committees of a small body of five members were obviously impracticable.