Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s9.101

v2.c4.s9.101

Sa-jāta (‘born together’) is found once in the Rigveda,¹ and very often later.² The word must clearly mean a ‘relative,’ and then more widely a man of the same position or rank, but the senses cannot be distinguished, so much do they merge into each other. The Sajātas of a king are of course princes;³ of an ordinary man, Vaiśyas;⁴ of a military man, Ksatriyas. But there is no clear reference to caste as in the later Sajāti⁵ (‘man of the same caste’). The disputes of Sajātas were notorious.⁶