The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c10.s2.t3.11

c10.s2.t3.11

As indicated above, the *Sabhâ* or *Pariṣat* as a supreme council of the state is well known in the *Râmâyaṇa*, the *Mahâbhârata* and the *nîti-śâstras* (literature on polity).⁴ But as yet positive knowledge about the institution exhausts itself merely in stray references to a few premiers, financiers or minister-generals of actual history.