Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t2.148

c4.t2.148

¹ J., I, p. 399, “*Atha sabbe amaccā ca nāgarā ca ekacchandā hutvā Bodhisattam.... abhisiñcitvā Takkasilārājānaṃ akamsu*”. The phrase *ekacchandā* occurs also, at J., V, 162; *Chhanda*, according to Jayaswal op. cit., I, p. 115, is vote. The learned scholar has rightly recognised the importance of this story from the constitutional point of view. His remarks on this particular point may not be wholly acceptable owing to the obscure nature of the evidence: “This was a referendum of the whole city, and not the city assembly only.” Cf. Sen, op. cit., p. 61.