[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922) › v1.c19.s2.15 # The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s2.15 The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c19.s2.15 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2.15) A single chief (how or for what period chosen we do not know) was elected as office holder, presiding over the Senate, and, if no senate were in session, over the state. He bore the title of \*Rāja\* which in this connexion does not mean king, but rather something like the Roman \*consul\*, or the Greek \*archōn\*. We hear at one time that Bhaddiya, a young cousin of the Buddha was ‘rāja’¹, at another that the Buddha’s father Suddhodana (elsewhere spoken of as a simple clansman, Suddhodana the Sākiyan), held that rank². - [Previous: v1.c19.s2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2.14) - [Next: v1.c19.s2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2.16) - [Up: v1.c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.rapson-1922.v1.c19.s2.15) · Pramāṇa