Hindu Administrative Institutions c12.s3.87

c12.s3.87

Here is shown that the local courts in order of succession or in the ascending scale were *kula*, *śreṇi*, and *gaṇa*. An appeal lay from the *kula* court to the *śreṇi* and from the *śreṇi* to the *gaṇa*. Above these was the king who ruled according to the laws of dharma. *Samaya* was the technical term applied to the decision or resolution of these local bodies.