Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c13.s2.140

c13.s2.140

The procedure is simple and it is most likely that it was followed in actual practice. The account of the text, however, seems to us to be applicable rather to the procedure of meeting followed at the trial of judicial cases than to the deliberations of the general assembly, which had no distinct legislative functions as such. We may be sure that the originators and repeaters of this story were themselves members of the republics and would have made use of their knowledge of what was constantly done at the gatherings in the assembly-hall.