India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c12.s6.62
India as Known to Pāṇini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashṭādhyāyī c12.s6.62
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(3) *Mahārāja*. Pāṇini refers to *bhakti* shown to Mahārāja in *sūtra* IV.3.97. So far as the word form is concerned it is the same for the name of Mahārāja as a people and as a deity. The existence of a *Mahārāja Janapada* is proved by their coins found in the Panjab. Traces of the ancient name are probably still preserved in the collection of four large villages in the Moga Tahsil of Ferozpur district which is the headquarters of a Pargana and still called Mahārāja, held by the Maharajki clan of Jats. The Maharajkians who own the surrounding country as Jagirdars form a distinct community, physically robust and opposed to subordination (*Punjab Gazetteer*, I.453).