India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.4

c12.s6.4

*PŪGA AND VRĀTA*—The Vāhīka land and the Parvata country were reeking with *āyudhajīvin* tribes governed by constitutions of different types. The highest form of government evolved amongst them was the *Saṅgha*. Under the *Saṅgha* polity also there were several stages of development. Some were only aristocratic oligarchies; others were of the Rājanya variety whose descendants are to be seen most likely in the Rāṇas of the Panjab Hill States; and still others were politically so well organised as to associate the whole *Janapada* with the sovereign right of issuing coins.