Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c17.17

c17.17

§ 86. The large number of the Gaṇa or Parliament of 5,000 noticed by the Greeks is not without parallel in Indian literature. The Jātakas describe Vaiśālī, the capital of the Lichchhavis as having 7,707 kinglets (rājākas). These rulers were composed of both rich and poor sorts who used to gather in the usual assembly in the House of Law on the call of tocsin. Probably all of them did not attend as they do not do in modern Parliaments.