India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s1.13

c12.s1.13

Pāṇini mentions another political term, *Ārya-Brāhmaṇa* (*Āryo Brāhmaṇa-kumārayoḥ*, VI.2.58), 'Honourable Brāhmaṇa', used with reference to the Chief Minister. In the next *sūtra*, *Rājā cha* (VI.2.59), Pāṇini refers to *Rāja-Brāhmaṇa*, which as a *Karmadhāraya* compound, would apply to a king of the Brāhmaṇa caste, but as a counter-example would refer to the Brāhmaṇa of the King. The King's Brāhmaṇa was the same as the king's minister mentioned in *Brāhmaṇa-miśro rājā*.