Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c14.85

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c14.85

Possibly attached to the Koliyan general assembly was a special body of peons, presumably police, bearing a special form of headdress with a drooping crest. They had no equal for their bad conduct and violence.³ The text does not give us more information about them. Such officials might have been a regular feature of the Buddhist republics.⁴

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