Sabhā
place · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
assembly · assembly-fire · court · court assembly · sabhā · the assembly hall
spoken of as
1 expressionCourt assembly“Sabhā”1 mention
Nāradasmṛti (Sanskrit)
Those court assessors who, having entered the assembly, sit meditating in silence and do not speak as the case requires, are all speakers of untruth.
in 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.
Those court assessors who, having entered the assembly, sit meditating in silence and do not speak as the case requires, are all speakers of untruth.
Either one should not enter the court assembly, or one must speak what is right.
Therefore, a court assessor, having entered the assembly, free from passion and hatred, should speak such words that he does not fall into hell.