The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times c6.82

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c6.82

¹² Ibid., VII, 20, 5; IX, 96, 1. Macdonell and Keith hold that the senānī "was appointed by the king, not by the people, to command in war when the king became too important to lead every little fray in person." Vedic Index, II, p. 472.

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Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit