The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c12.16

c12.16

Of a participation of the *senâpati* in legislation, the already-quoted passage from the Tesakuna Jâtaka speaks, where legislation in accordance with the Scripture is ascribed to him. After refusing the kingship offered to him by the ministers, he writes on a gold tablet, before he goes into the solitude of the forest, the laws to be followed in administering justice (*viniccaya-dhamma*, V. 125). "His opinion—so it is said at the end—remained in force for forty thousand years."