Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c14.58

c14.58

A parody of their constitution is thus given in another Buddhist book: "amongst them (the Vaiśālians) the rule of "having respect for the high, the middle ones, the oldest, the "elders is not observed; every one considers himself to be "the rājā, 'I am the rājā, I am the rājā.' No one becomes a "follower of another." Evidently in their councils every member had an equal right of speech and voting; and every one wanted to be the next president.³