The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c9.s2.18

c9.s2.18

Some of the inscriptions of the ancient Gujaratis throw an interesting sidelight on the Hindu legal sense and institutionalism. India's appreciation of corporate energism will be evident from the measures that General Uṣavadâta adopted to perpetuate the benefits from his charities.¹ This great philanthropist of the Ândhra Deccan had the terms of his endowments registered by the *nigama-sabhâ* (town-corporation) of Govardhana (Nasik). And these were then inscribed on the door of the monastery. Gifts for public purposes used thus to be looked after by public bodies.