India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.61

India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s6.61

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c12.s6.61

(2) *Rājanya* (IV.2.53). They are mentioned also by Kātyāyana and Patañjali and in the *Mahābhārata*. The abundance of their coins in Hoshiarpur district points to it as their region (*vishaya* or *deśa*). According to Pāṇini the country occupied by the Rājanyas was called Rājanyaka. It appears that in the period after Alexander which witnessed large-scale tribal movements, a branch of the Rājanyas had moved to the region of Mathurā where also their coins have been found.

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit