[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) › c10.5 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c10.5 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c10.5 - **Language:** English ### [c10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.5) Translation :— (1) "May the Samiti and the Sabhā, the two daughters of Prajāpati, concurrently aid me. May he with whom I shall meet co-operate with me ; may I, O Ye Fathers, speak agreeably to those assembled. (2) "We know thy name, O Assembly : \*Narishtā\* verily is thy name. May all those that sit assembled in thee utter speech in harmony with me. (3) "Of them that are sitting together I take to myself the power and the understanding in this entire gathering, O Indra, render me successful." (4) "If your mind has wandered to a distance, or has been enchained here or there, then do we turn it hither ; May your mind take delight in me !" \[I have adopted the translation of the hymn as proposed in the Sacred Books of the East volume on the Atharva-Veda (xlii, 138), with the exception of the rendering of of \*narishtā\* which has been translated there as 'mirth,' and, alternatively, as 'most favourable to men' (p. 544).\] - [Previous: c10.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.4) - [Next: c10.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.6) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.5) · Pramāṇa