Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c12.23

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c12.23

§ 23. Pāṇini, as we have seen, equates *gaṇa* with *saṁgha*. No one would say that the word *saṁgha* can in any way be connected with 'tribe' there. Again, new *gaṇas* were founded.² Would that mean that *new* 'tribes' were founded? Such a meaning would hardly deserve consideration

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