The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c30.76

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Examples of such early Rājput states are the Yaudheya confederation in 'the southern portion of the Punjab...and the northern parts of Rājputāna' (*J.R.A.S.*, 1897, p. 887), and the Ārjunāyanas in the Bhartpur and Alwar States of Rājputāna (*ibid.* p. 886). Both the Yaudheyas, 'Warriors,' and the Ārjunāyanas, 'Descendants of Arjuna,' are mentioned by Pāṇini in the fourth century B.C.; both issued coins as early as the first century B.C.; and both appear among the peoples on the frontiers of the Gupta empire in the Allahābād inscription of Samudragupta c. 380 A.D. Other states struck coins with the bare legend 'Of the Rājanya (Kshatriya) Country.' It is impossible at present to determine with much precision the localities in which these coins were issued; but similarity of type suggests that one variety may belong to the same region as the coins of the Ārjunāyanas and the kings of Mathurā (Pl. V, 13)¹.