Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.401

c7.401

The practice of all the ruling nobles being called *rājās* appears to have left its trace in the tradition preserved in the preambles of some *Jātakas* that all the 7, 707 members of the Licchavian Assembly were called *rājās*.⁷ Yet later evidence shows that in the Kingdom of Tong-Li (to be placed in southeast Rājasthān) "the chiefs gave themselves the title of *rājā*." ⁸