Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c13.54

c13.54

§ 38 We gather from Pāṇini that there were two Rājanyas amongst the Andhaka-Vrishṇis.¹ He gives a special rule how to mention them (VI. 2. 34). The Kāśikā,² commenting on that says that the rule does not apply to the members of the Andhakas and Vrishṇis as such, but to their Rājanyas only, the 'Rājanyas being leaders of families consecrated to rulership.' The names of several of these 'dual' groups of Rulers are preserved in literature: the Rājanyas of the groups of Śini and Vāsudeva, Śvāphalka and Chaitraka are cited in the Kāśikā,³ the Party (*varga*) of Akrūra and the Party of Vāsudeva are alluded to by Kātyāyana,⁴ Vāsudeva and Ugrasena-Babhrū are mentioned as leading their parties, in the Māhā-Bhārata (§ 197).