[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968) › c13.s2.41 # Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c13.s2.41 Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c13.s2.41 - **Language:** English ### [c13.s2.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c13.s2.41) The name of the Buddha’s clan is spelt differently in various Pāli texts but the two most common variants are \*Sakya\* and \*Sakka\*. Most frequent of all is \*Sakya\* which besides the later \*Jātakas\* appears in the \*Dīgha Nikāya\* alone at least 31 times.³ In the \*Majjhima Nikāya\* the word occurs 28 times in this form.⁴ In the \*Saṁyutta Nikāya\* it also occurs 18 times.⁵ In the form \*Sakka\* the name occurs less frequently. In the locative plural, the name nearly always occurs as \*Sakkesu\*,⁶ though we have also found it twice as \*Sakyesu\*.⁷ The usual form of the name in the genitive singular is also almost universally \*Sakkassa\*.⁸ However, in the genitive plural the word occurs most commonly as \*Sakyānaṁ\*,⁹ and only a few times as \*Sakkānaṁ\*.¹⁰ The form \*Sakko\* most commonly figures in the \*Majjhima Nikāya\*.¹¹ It does not occur in this form in the \*Dīgha Nikāya\* at all and appears only twice in the \*Saṁyutta Nikāya\*.¹² The name occurs quite commonly in the plural as \*Sakyā\*. - [Previous: c13.s2.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c13.s2.40) - [Next: c13.s2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c13.s2.42) - [Up: c13.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c13.s2) ## Cites (4) - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka) — Pāli - [Dīghanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha) — Pāli - [Majjhimanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima) — Pāli - [Saṃyuttanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c13.s2.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1968.c13.s2.41) · Pramāṇa