Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c9.14

c9.14

In deliberations, speakers were anxious to make speeches agreeable to the assembled Samiti (ये सं॒ग्रामाः॒ समि॑तय॒स्तेषु॒ चारु॑ वदेम ते).⁴ The speaker wanted to prove himself ‘brilliant, not to be contradicted,’ in the Samiti ⁵ To these deliberations would also refer the prayer in the Atharva-Veda, II, 27 :