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Political Concepts in Ancient India
 
yati) the others according to dhamma"

(vide Dīgha Nikāya, Vol. III, pp. 92-93).
(ii) ra
(ii) rāja-ā=The leader of the battle (vide

Aitareya Brāhmaṇa. I.14).
 

(iii) rājā=A vassal king or even a smaller

vassal king in relation to the paramount

rulers assuming the titles like mahārājā,

rājātirāja and mahārājādhirāja as was

the vogue by the Gupta age.
 

(iv) rājā=A term applied to the Heads of the

families capable of taking part in the

tribal assemblies constituting the non-

monarchical republics of the Buddhist
tradition.
 
(v) ra
tradition.
(v) rājan =The term has been used in

Northern India (AĀryavartta) to mean
āvārtta) to mean
any one engaged in the ruling function

(vide Kumārīla on Miīmāṁsāsūtra, II.

3.2).
 

(vi) rājan=The term used to be applied
even to governors of districts (mand
even to governors of districts (māṇḍali-

kas), appointed to their posts by some

paramount ruler. (Kumārila in the

same context of the Miīmāṁsāsūtra).
 

(vii) rājan=The people of Andhra, as re-

corded by SŚabara, and the people

of Dravida, as recorded by Kumārila

'applied the title to all Kshatriyas

irrespective of their exercise of the

ruling function or not'.
 
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