Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s4.75
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c9.s4.75
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c9.s4.75
In the *Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa*, the *Brihad-āraṇyaka Upanishad* and the *Mahābhārata*⁵ Janaka is called *Samrāṭ*. This shows that he was a greater personage than a mere *Rājan*. Although there is no clear evidence in the Vedic literature of the use of the word *Samrāj* as emperor in the sense of a king of kings,