Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c19.39

c19.39

§ 107. The procedure of moving the *ñatti* (*jñapti*) once and the *pratijñā* once was called ñatti-dutiya, the Two-ñatti-procedure; and when they had to be moved thrice, it was called ñatti-chatuttha (the Four-ñatti-procedure). Putting the resolution or pratijñā to the assembly was called Kammavāchā (*Karmavāk*). Now if the ñatti was moved and no Pratijñā formally put, or if the resolution was proclaimed and no ñatti had been moved, the act would be considered invalid. Similarly, an act requiring a ñatti-chatuttha could not be lawful if the motion or the resolution was not moved for the prescribed number of times. Again, the order of the motion and resolution could not be subverted: