Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.79

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¹ The sabhā serves both as gambling-house and as the place of justice; cp. çl. 43. The sabhya and sabhāsada (çl. 33, 36 ff.), and the men who sit in the rājasamsad (31, 43) are both law and gambling confrères of the king. H. Schurtz would see in the sabhā the well-known “unmarried men’s house”.