[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924) › c10.22 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c10.22 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c10.22 - **Language:** English ### [c10.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.22) § 16. The Samiti and Sabhā were not the only popular institutions of the Vedic times. The religious life was organised through the \*\*Vidatha assembly\*\*,¹ which had existed even earlier² than the Samiti. It seems to have been the parent folk-assembly from which the Sabhā, Samiti and Senā differentiated, for we find the \*\*Vidatha associated with civil, military and religious functions (Roth).³\*\* The \*\*Senā or the Army\*\*, which was in early times the \*\*nation-in-arms\*\*, was regarded as a body by itself and evidently as a constitutional unit: - [Previous: c10.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.21) - [Next: c10.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.23) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.22) · Pramāṇa