The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c9.s1.t1.4

c9.s1.t1.4

Thus there was the *pûga* characterized as *samgha* of a special denomination. It was a corporation of men I) belonging to different social groups (*nânâ-jâtîyâh*) and (II) practising diverse (no regular or fixed) professions (*aniyata-vrittayah*), but (III) distinguished from other *samghas* by having a preponderance of economic or secular interests (*artha-kâma-pradhânâh*). Such an association was either a rural commune or a *municipium*.