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Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t2.131

Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t2.131

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c4.t2.131

As a rule, only the sons of the eldest queen (*aggamahesī*) who must be, as Fick surmises,¹⁰ of the same caste as the king and thus a Khattiyā, seem legitimate heirs to the Crown.