[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) › c19.98 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c19.98 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c19.98 - **Language:** English ### [c19.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c19.98) The Buddha only adopts the procedure-rules for particular kinds of cases arising in his organization. He himself came from one of the republics and mostly lived amongst republican communities: he was perfectly familiar with their working system and adapted it to the benefit of his own Order. His ambition was to found a large state, an empire, of his religious system (\*dharma-chakra\*) but the organisation he created to realise his aim was communal, fit to establish and hold only a city-state of dharma and not a \*dharma-chakra\*. The limitation was the result of early associations. Born in a republic, where political and public spirit was more intense than in contemporary kingdoms, he combined in him the capacity, the enthusiasm and the ambition, not of a quiet recluse, but of a republican chief and of a conqueror.² Unlike the normal Hindu ascetic he would hold property for his Saṅgha, he would hold meetings and pass resolutions and punish offenders. - [Previous: c19.97](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c19.97) - [Next: c19.99](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c19.99) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c19.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c19.98) · Pramāṇa