Hindu Administrative Institutions c12.s3.3

c12.s3.3

It has been generally admitted by all law-givers that every kula group in its political sense had a separate organization and separate regulations. Perhaps the kulikas or the elders of the kulas,³ formed the judicial court to decide disputes arising among the constituents of a kula. Originally a kula seems to have meant a family meeting.⁴ Then it became expanded gradually and in the time of the Mitākṣara it meant ‘a meeting of cognates, relatives and kinsmen.’ The Kauṭalīya however mentions it as a council of regency or of oligarchy.⁵