Describe the law and the judicial system in ancient india.
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Judiciary System in Ancient India
The judicial system deals with the administration of the laws through the agency of the law givers or the courts. The system provides the machinery for the resolving of the disputes on account of which the aggrieved. Nothing rankles in human heart more than a brooding sense of injustice. No society can allow a situation to grow where the impression prevails of there being no redress for grievances.
India has a recorded legal history starting from the Vedic ages (ca.1750–500 BCE) and some sort of civil law system may have been in place during the Bronze Age in India that is around 3000 BCE and the Indus Valley civilization, which is the period between 2600 BCE and 1900 BCE. Law as a matter of religious prescriptions and philosophical discourse has an illustrious history in India. Emanating from the Vedas, the Upanishads and other religious texts, it was a fertile field enriched by practitioners from different Hindu philosophical schools and later by Jains and Buddhists.