Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c41.138

c41.138

The reference in the Daśakumāra-charita⁴ which represents the king making an illegal request to the president of the Jānapada for the oppression of a particular Grāmaṇī or the head of the village assembly, associates a Jānapada member with the village unit. The Janapada, according to the Artha-Śāstra, was composed of villages and towns.¹ It is permissible to assume that the Jānapada had similarly its constituents in village corporations and townships of the country.