Local Government in Ancient India c13.77

c13.77

The summoning of members to the meetings of the assembly was made by the blowing of a trumpet which did duty for the issuing of written notices. A special post of the herald was created by the assembly which fixed its daily salary to be 2 *soru* (no. 156, Appendix C, of 1919, of A. D. 1001). As will be shown below, this method of convening public meetings is also laid down in the Smṛtis which thus remarkably confirm the southern and epigraphic evidence.