[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Administrative Institutions](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929) › c12.s3.69 # Hindu Administrative Institutions c12.s3.69 Hindu Administrative Institutions c12.s3.69 - **Language:** English ### [c12.s3.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c12.s3.69) It may be shown, however, that the \*gaṇa\* organization of the \*Upaniṣads\* was more economic than political in character and it may be remarked that its economic character played itself out in course of time as a political institution. In this latter aspect we see it mentioned in the \*Dharmaśāstras\* and the \*Arthaśāstras\*. The expression here is no more confined to a particular community, but refers unmistakably to associations of common people. Thus in the \*Nitivākyamṛta\* of Somadeva there occurs the phrase गणपुरश्चारिणः and the word \*gaṇa\* is commented on as the assembly of peoples (जनसमूह) and the leader of the \*gaṇa\* was known as \*purachārin\*,—the \*purośu\* of the Tamil literature. - [Previous: c12.s3.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c12.s3.68) - [Next: c12.s3.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c12.s3.70) - [Up: c12.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c12.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c12.s3.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.dikshitar-1929.c12.s3.69) · Pramāṇa