Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c40.58

c40.58

subject of relief which could not be granted or suits which could not be entertained (anādeya-vyavahāra), that a suitor who was hostile to the Paura, i. e., the City Assembly of the Capital (see below), or to the Rāshtra was not to be granted relief. The authority quoted is that of Brihaspati. A similar verse is given in the Vīramitrodaya (Vyavahāra) at page 44, where instead of Paura, the reading is Pura, capital. The expressions Pura and Rāshtra are explained by Mitra-Miśra as Paura-Jānapada. Rāshtra here thus stands for the Jānapada-body as it does in the Daśakumāra-charita.