Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c29.40

c29.40

§ 194. The names of the republicans are another internal evidence of their Hindu origin. The Kathaians or the Kathas are a Vedic people to whom the Kaṭha recension of the Yajur-Veda and the Kaṭha Upanishad owed their origin. The Madras are not simply known to Vedic literature but are known as a home of orthodoxy where men like Śvetaketu went for post-graduate studies in sacrifices. There is a definite history of the origin of the Yaudheyas and Madras as noticed above. The 'Kshatriyas' were *par excellence* Kshatriyas. The Vṛishṇis are not only Kshatriyas but sacred Kshatriyas, the Vedic Satvats Yadus. As to the names like the Ārjunāyanas, and the Śālaṅkāyanas, etc., the names are proof positive of orthodox origins. The rules of Pāṇini stamp the formation with orthodoxy.