Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.328
Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.328
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We now quote all the passages where *samiti* occurs independently of the *sabhā* in the *Ṛg Veda* and the *Atharva Veda*. It will be noted that in many of them the *samiti* and the *rājās* both occur in the same verse or that the word "nobles" occurs in almost all the hymns where the *samiti* is mentioned: