Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c16.47

c16.47

§ 71. European scholars have proposed their identification with the Ārjunāyanas.² But this is unacceptable on philological grounds. The name is a composite of two words, *Agra* and *Śreṇi*. And the main word is found in Kauṭilya in the list of republics which did not call their president Rājan and which were martial.³ There the form *Śreṇi* only appears; the member *Agra* shows that there were probably more than one unit in the Śreṇi (§ 58).