Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c13.6

c13.6

§ 30. Pāṇini in V. 3. 114 to 117 gives *taddhita* rules with regard to the Saṃghas of the V ā h ī k a c o u n t r y. By those rules, the members of a particular S a m g h a, when mentioned, could be distinguished, whether they were Brahmins, Kshatriyas, or of castes other than those. For instance, take the well-known example of the M ā l a v a s, called Malloi by Alexander's historians.¹ A non-Brahmin and a non-Kshatriya of the M ā l a v a S a m g h a would be called M ā l a v y a ḥ; while a Kshatriya would be M ā l a v a ḥ, the plural in each case being M ā l a v ā ḥ.² This points to the stage of a developed, the familiar, Hindu society, as opposed to a tribal stage.