Republics in Ancient India, c. 1500 B.C.–500 B.C. c7.92

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Another passage used by Weber to support this view comes from the *Atharva Veda*—*tvāṁ viśo vṛṇatāṁ rājyāya*.² It also contains a verb derived from the much discussed root *vṛ*. It is not clear that this implies that the people played a decisive role in establishing a man in kingship, at least in the constitutional sense. The same can be said of Weber’s comments on another Atharvan hymn.³