Hindu Administrative Institutions c12.s4.6

c12.s4.6

Representatives of these committees were also members of the village assembly, or the *mahāsabhā*. Every village had an assembly of its own called a *sabhā* or a *mahāsabhā*. These village *sabhās* often call for notice in the South Indian inscriptions. These *sabhās* held their meetings generally in the temple halls (*sabhā-maṇḍapa*) and particularly under a large and shady banian tree in platforms usually constructed for similar purposes.²