Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.130

c41.130

² पौरजानपदा यस्य भूतेषु च दयालवः । सधना धान्यवन्तश्च दृढमूलः स पार्थिवः ॥ —*Mahā-Bhārata* (Kumbakonam) *Sānti-Parvan*, XCIV. 18. On the question of the wealth in the hands of the Paura and Jānapada bodies it should be noticed that corporate bodies not only held money and property but could even legally borrow money as is evidenced by the laws of Brihaspati and Kātyāyana (*Viramitrodaya*, p.432).