Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c29.14

c29.14

Mr. Smith bases his theory, firstly, on an alleged custom of exposure by the Lichchhavis of dead human bodies, a custom which he says also prevails in Tibet; and, secondly, on judicial procedure of the Lichchhavis which he thinks has a very close resemblance with the procedure followed in Tibet. An examination of the two data shows that the exposure of the dead as "the usage of the Lichchhavis of Vaiśālī" "in ancient times"² has existence only in mistaken imagination, and further that there is not even a remote resemblance in the two judicial procedures.