Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c26.72

c26.72

§ 163. No history of the Vāmarathas is yet available. According to Patañjali the republic was noted for the scholarship of their learned men. They in this respect resemble the Kaṭhas. They did not however seem to have any military glory like that of the Kaṭhas. Nothing is known about their seat. To this class of new growth and early death must be referred the unnamed states of the Rājanya constitution whose coins are struck only in the name of their Rājanyas (Presidents) *e.g.*, *Rajanya-Mahamitasa* ('Of the Rājanya Mahā-mitra'). They bear legends both in Kharoshṭhī and Brāhmī and they are found in the hills.¹