Sabhā
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
assembly · assembly-fire · court · court assembly · sabhā · the assembly hall
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The sacred ritual/political assembly hall, personified and addressed as a divine, purifying gathering-place.
We have come to this all-formed assembly in which of old the one god spoke;
This divine assembly, all-formed, performing her craft, moves among the peoples;
May we sit down together by the assembly-fire, speaking with dear and honeyed speech;
Nāradasmṛti
The formal judicial assembly where the king or chief judge and court assessors hear and decide disputes.
[The Court Assembly]
That is not a true assembly where there are no elders.
When legal disputes are purified, the court assessors become pure.