Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c12.19

c12.19

The term *gaṇa* signified the form of *government*. *Saṃgha*, on the other hand, signified the *state*. As Patañjali says, *Saṃgha* is so called because it is one body, a unity (*saṃghanana*).⁵ As we shall see presently, the *Saṃgha*, as a unit, a *body politic*, had its ‘arms’⁶ like a king or a corporation aggregate.