India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s1.11

c8.s1.11

*RĀJANYA*—In the Saṁhitās *Rājanya* is a synonymous term with Kshatriya. Pāṇini has retained the old sense of the word in *sūtra* IV.2.39, whereas he has used it in a new constitutional significance in *sūtra* VI. 2. 34 (*Rājanya-bahuvachana-dvandve Andhaka-Vṛishṇishu*), where the *Kāśikā* defines *rājanya* as a member of such families in a Kshatriya tribe as were consecrated to rulership (*abhishikta-vaṁśya kshatriya*).