Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c16.58

c16.58

§ 74. The next "independent nation" was the X a t h r o i. This restored in Sanskrit will be *Kshattriya*. As I have said above, they are identical with the republic which bore the proper name '*Kshattriya*' as in the Artha-Śāstra. Kauṭilya places them together with the Śreṇis and here also we find the Ś r e ṇ i s as neighbours to the K s h a t t r i y a s. As already suggested, the *Sindhi Khattri* caste, seem to be their modern representative. According to the division of Kauṭilya they did not have a king consul.⁴