Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c23.12

c23.12

The recognition of the system of naming a corporate association after the founder or president helps us in investigating the origins of our republics. The village corporation was named after the grāmaṇī,⁵ Vedic charaṇas were named after founders, religious bodies took the names of their first organisers, and so did may of our republics.