Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c25.23

c25.23

§ 135. Up to this time the Nābhaka has not been identified. I find the name in the Gaṇapāṭha on Pāṇini IV. 1. 112 as *Nabhāka*. The rule before IV. 1. 112 deals with derivatives from republican names, and, that after, from river-names. The Gaṇapāṭha on Pāṇini IV. 1. 112, gives an enumeration or group called 'Śiva and others' which contains names of *rishis* and founders of families (*e.g.*, Kakutstha, Kohaḍa, etc.), royal dynasties (*e.g.*, Haihaya), rivers (Gaṅgā, Vipāśa) and a lot of obscure proper names. Along with Piṭaka, Trikshāka, are given Nabhāka and Ūrṇa-Nābha. The Ūrṇa-Nābhas appear also in the republican group of the Rājanyas, Ārjunāyanas etc.² *Nābhaka* was probably a national title derived from the Nābha people. The "Nābha lines" (*Nābha-paṅktis*)³ which were evidently non-monarchical, were probably identical with the Ūrṇa-Nābhas, the Nābhas of the 'woollen' country. Gāndhāra was famous for its wool.