Tribes in Ancient India c53.92

c53.92

D. R. Bhandarkar says that *kula* or clan sovereignty was prominent among the Śākyas. *Kula*, which was more extensive than the family, was the lowest political unit amongst the political *saṅghas*. To quote his words, *kula* ‘denotes not simply the domination of a chief over his clan, but also and principally his supremacy over the territory occupied by that clan’.⁴