Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.567

v1.c3.567

A-rājānaḥ, ‘not princes,’ is a term used to describe persons in two passages of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa,¹ and in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa.² Weber³ also finds them mentioned in the Atharvaveda,⁴ and thinks that they—Sūtas (‘charioteers’) and Grāmaṇīs (‘troop-leaders’) there referred to—were called thus because, while not themselves princes, they assisted in the consecration of princes.