Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.10

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² *Ibid*, 26-51. For Jana in the collective sense of a body, compare Asoka's **जनं धंमयुतं** (Pillar series VII). The age of the present Rāmāyaṇa should be studied in Jacobi's critical paper on Rāmāyaṇa (*Das Rāmāyaṇa*). It seems that the original edition was composed about 500 B. C. and the revision took place circa 200 B. C. (*JBORS.* IV, 254).