[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) › c14.47 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c14.47 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c14.47 - **Language:** English ### [c14.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c14.47) "A single chief—how, and for what period chosen, we do "not know—was elected as office-holder, presiding over the "sessions, and, if no sessions were sitting, over the State. He "bore the title of \*rāja\*, which must have meant something like "the Roman consul, or the Greek archōn. We hear no-"where of such a triumvirate as bore corresponding office "among the Licchavis, nor of such acts of kingly sovereignty "as are ascribed to the real kings mentioned above. But we "hear at one time¹ that Bhaddiya, a young cousin of the "Buddha's was the rāja; and in another passage, Suddhodana, "the Buddha's father (who is elsewhere spoken of as a simple "citizen, Suddhodana Sākiyan), is called the rāja." - [Previous: c14.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c14.46) - [Next: c14.48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c14.48) - [Up: c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c14.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c14.47) · Pramāṇa