Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.36

c26.36

§ 151. The Ārjunāyanas as a people do not appear in Pāṇini¹ or Patañjali, nor in the Mahā-Bhārata.² But they are added to the Rājanya group of the Gaṇapāṭha, palpably later as they come towards the end. The addition cannot be later than the time of Patañjali, for in 100 B.C. they are in Rajputana, away from the Rājanyas. There they figure with the Yaudheyas and others down to the time of Samudra Gupta. The Ārjunāyanas seem to be thus a younger political community founded about the Śuṅga times (200 B.C.), by, as the name implies, Ārjunāyana. Their coins are inscribed only in Brāhmī script, a fact excluding the idea of northern association about 100 B.C. They bear the legend ‘*Ārjunāyanānā*’ ‘Coin of the Ārjunāyanas’ or ‘*Arjunayanana Jaya*’, (‘Victory of the Ārjunāyana’).³ They are associates and friends of the valiant Yaudheyas, Madrakas, and Mālavas in Rajputana with whom they migrated there.