Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c29.7

c29.7

Mr. Vincent Smith, in his note in the Indian Antiquary, opines, "I have now come across an "observation which suggests that tribal cons''titution like that of the Yaudheyas may have been of Tibetan "origin." Again, "for the purpose of illustrating ancient Indian "tribal constitutions this slight abstract of Mr. Walsh's paper "suffices, because no record exists which gives any details of such "constitutions." Nothing like proof on the identification of the Yaudheyas as Tibetans is suggested, and it is hard to see why the Tibetan illustration should serve to fill up the vacuum of Indian details. Because no detail of Indian constitutions was known in 1906, was the gap to be filled up from Tibet? Now as the details are forthcoming, it will be admitted that there is not the slightest resemblance between the ceremony of the Chumbi valley which takes place in the eleventh month of the election of the Kongdus and the republican consecrations given in the Aitareya. Even the states which were near the Himalayas and which received the Vairājya consecration are poles apart from the Chumbi yak-sacrifice. The parliament or *gaṇa* of the Yaudheyas, their *Mantra-dharas*, their *elected President*, have nothing corresponding to them in the *theocratic government* of the Chumbi valley.