The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c7.83
The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c7.83
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c7.83
There is no means of gauging the actual power wielded by the Assembly. Nor is the scope of its activities at all clear. From a hymn in the last Maṇḍala of the Rigveda it appears that the assembly sometimes acted as a court of justice.²