Tribes in Ancient India c7.71

c7.71

Some time before the fourth century B.C., the monarchical constitution of the Kurus gave place to a republic, for we are told by Kauṭilya⁴ that the Kurus were ‘rāja-śabda-upajīvinaḥ’, or ‘enjoying the status of rājās’,—i.e. all citizens had equal rank and rights.