The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c11.9

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c11.9

the Gothic reiks, originally, "director, guide." The meaning "shine" from Skr. râj seems to have developed as a secondary phenomenon. At any rate, the proposition enunciated by Georg Curtis (Kleine Schriften, Leipzig 1886, Part I, p. 65)—Rajân denotes, "according to the derivation by the Indians, what shines, that which shows princely pomp" and this is "the most external and superficial name and one which does not touch the essence but only the appearance of royal power"—seems to have no real basis.

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