[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) › c10.6 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c10.6 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c10.6 - **Language:** English ### [c10.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.6) Sabhā is called \*narishtā\* which Sāyaṇa explains as a resolution of 'many' that cannot be broken or violated (नरिष्टा; अहिंसिता परैरनभिभाव्या बहुवः संभूय यद्येकं वाक्यं वदेयुस्तद्धि न परैरतिलङ्घ्यम् अतः अनतिलङ्घ्यवाक्यत्वात् नरिष्टेति नाम ।). 'Hence from the inviolability the name is derived.' With reference to this name, the speaker wishes that \*'all those that sit assembled in Thee, utter speech in harmony with me.'\* Free discussion was thus held in the Sabhā, and a resolution of the Sabhā was considered binding on all and inviolable. Evidently, the Sabhā was almost as important as the Samiti. - [Previous: c10.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.5) - [Next: c10.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.7) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c10.6) · Pramāṇa