The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c9.s1.t1.7
The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c9.s1.t1.7
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c9.s1.t1.7
The world into which Śâkya was born was thus familiar with several incorporated associations.¹ It was only a commonplace floating term of the period that Buddhist *Vinaya* (discipline, organization, government) literature of the fourth century B. C. adopted as the name of an ecclesiastical polity.