Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t6.40
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t6.40
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the Epic¹ and heard cases. When not himself, some one or more of his ministers decided the cases, as we see the purohita, the Senāpati and even the Prince acting as judges² in addition to their normal duties in their respective spheres of action. The post of a judge was named that of a ‘Vinicchayā-macca’,³ and that there were more than one justice can be assumed from the term ‘Vinicchayamahāmattā’s sometimes used in the stories.⁴ One Jātaka gives the definite number of five.⁵