India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s1.3

c12.s1.3

The king's relationship to territory (*bhūmi* and *pṛithivī*) is indicated in his titles *sārvabhauma* and *pārthiva* based on his sovereignty or *aiśvarya* (*Tasyeśvaraḥ sarvabhūmi-pṛithivī-bhyām aṇañau*, V.1.41-42). One's own kingdom was called *pṛithivī*; but *sarvabhūmi* denoted the whole country and was the same as *mahāpṛithivī* of the Mahāgovinda sutta of the *Dīgha-Nikāya*. The Sārvabhauma after conquest of the earth and annexation became entitled to perform an *aśvamedha* (*Āpas. Śr.*, XXX.1.1; cf. Bharata *Sārvabhauma*, Ādi, 69.45-47). The title also occurs in the list of the *Ait. Br.*