Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c5.17

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c5.17

**Republican peoples known to Panini.** Pāṇini's term for a republic is *Saṁgha* or *Gaṇa* [III. 3, 86]. Most of these republics took to the pursuit of arms and were known as *Āyudhajīvi-Saṁghas*, 'Warrior-communities.' They were of the *Vāhīka* country, 'the land of rivers,' another name for the Punjab [V. 3, 114]. As examples of these self-governing communities of warriors, Pāṇini mentions the following:

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Aṣṭādhyāyī — Pāṇini, Sanskrit