The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c11.40

c11.40

² The word denotes, according to its etymology, as it is a compound of the Sanskrit words rāja and ājñā, properly, "the king's command." Whether in the Pali, a special technical meaning is attached to the word, I cannot say. In the Culladhammapāla Jātaka it is narrated that the king causes, with the help of the executioner, the hands and feet of the prince to be cut off. The executioner asks when he has carried out the order, "Have I, O King, executed the *rājāṇā*" (*kim deva katā rājāṇā*, III. 180). Here *rājāṇā* probably means only "the king's