Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.62

c26.62

Numismatic scholars have taken this ‘rājanya’ as the ‘well-known equivalent for Kshatriya’ (See V. Smith, *Catalogue of the Coins in the Indian Museum*, vol. I, p. 164). But this is a mistake. Rājanya is the proper name of a political people. It is clearly given as such by Pāṇini, Kātyāyana and Patañjali and also by the Mahā-Bhārata. Their coins are still of the old class called *kāṁsika* (bronze) by Pāṇini, (V. 1. 25) *i.e.*, cast. Their coin which is die-struck bears legend in Kharoshṭhī and is closely allied to the North Satrap coins, bearing the same figure as the latter. This tells the final tale—the tale of their absorption in the Mathurā Satrapy. Their coins are found in the Hoshyarpur District and Mathurā. The former region seems to have been their home.