[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) › c36.17 # Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c36.17 Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c36.17 - **Language:** English ### [c36.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c36.17) ¹ \*Satapatha Brāhmaṇa\* V. 3. 1. Cf. also Taittirīya Br. 1. 7. 3. (Poona Ed. I pp. 308-310) and Taittirīya Saṁhitā 1. 8 9. (Mysore Ed. I, pp. 146-49). The text says that the ratnins are eleven ( एकादश रत्नानि ) But the \*havi\* is offered at twelve places. Evidently the offering at his own house is not counted (the school of \*Krishna Yajurveda\* does not prescribe an offering at the king-elect's house) or the last two might have been treated as entitled to one offering ointly. - [Previous: c36.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c36.16) - [Next: c36.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c36.18) - [Up: c36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c36) ## Cites (3) - [Kṛṣṇayajurvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*taittiriya.1.8.9) — Sanskrit - [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.taittiriya.1.7.3) — Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.5.3.1) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c36.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jayaswal-1924.c36.17) · Pramāṇa