Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c40.50

c40.50

association *Deśa samgha* or the *Jānapada* is obviously meant. Similarly, when a document registered by the Deśa-adhyaksha is termed by Vyāsa the law-giver a Jānapada document, the adhyaksha of Deśa is the President of the Deśa assembly or the Jānapada.¹ The above data prove that the Jānapada of Manu and Yājñavlkya and the Deśa-samgha of Manu and Kauṭilya are identical. The corporate association Jānapada or Deśa-Samgha as the name signifies, was a body for the whole country (except, as we shall presently see, the capital).