Hindu Administrative Institutions c8.s4.44

c8.s4.44

Not the least interesting is that similar organizations are also mentioned in Tamil literature. In the *Perumkathai*¹ we meet with two terms "நகரமும், காடும்," along with *aimperumkulu* and others who came to attend the festivities of Naravānan's birth. The Sanskrit equivalents of these two terms are *Paura* and *Jañapada*, representative assemblies of the people and not the mass of citizens. Whenever the latter is to be mentioned the expression is நகர மாந்தர் meaning not a corporation but a great body of all citizens.