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Monarchy in the Vedic Age

Monarchy in the Vedic Age Footnotes 1. See my Ancient Indian Warfare with Special Reference to the Vedic Period (Leiden, 1965), pp. 135 ff. Also, my Ancient Indian Warfare , (Delhi: 1989). 2 RV. 1.103.5. 3 RV. VIII.35.I7; cf. SV. IV.II.A.1; AB. VIII.4.12. For Indra as the prototype and guardian of kingship, see R. N. Dandekar , “ Vrtrahā Indra ”, ABORI 31 ( 1950 ), p. 53 , fn.2 . 4 RV III.43.5. 5 Ibid. , IX.35.5. 6 Ibid. , 1.162;163. 7 Ibid. , VIII.35.16–18. 8 Ibid. , X.90.12. Compare the patrician gentes of Rome, the eupatridae of Athens, the nobles of early Germany, the eorls of the Anglo‐Saxons, and the athravas and rathaesthas of ancient Iran. Cf. CHI , I , p. 125 . 9 RV. IV.42.1; VII.64.2; VIII.25.8; X.109.3; VIII.67.1. 10 See V. M. Apte , “ Were castes formulated in the Rgveda? BDCRI II , p. 47 . Another Rgvedic passage, v.54.7, implies a distinction between the rsi and the rājan. 11 There is no need to take the word “election” in its twentieth century sense. 12 RV. X.173.1, viśas tvā sarvā vānchantu. The word gana in RV. IV.35.3 and elsewhere seems to indicate a republican form of government. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Footnotes 1. See my Ancient Indian Warfare with Special Reference to the Vedic Period (Leiden, 1965), pp. 135 ff. Also, my Ancient Indian Warfare , (Delhi: 1989). 2 RV. 1.103.5. 3 RV. VIII.35.I7; cf. SV. IV.II.A.1; AB. VIII.4.12. For Indra as the prototype and guardian of kingship, see R. N. Dandekar , “ Vrtrahā Indra ”, ABORI 31 ( 1950 ), p. 53 , fn.2 . 4 RV III.43.5. 5 Ibid. , IX.35.5. 6 Ibid. , 1.162;163. 7 Ibid. , VIII.35.16–18. 8 Ibid. , X.90.12. Compare the patrician gentes of Rome, the eupatridae of Athens, the nobles of early Germany, the eorls of the Anglo‐Saxons, and the athravas and rathaesthas of ancient Iran. Cf. CHI , I , p. 125 . 9 RV. IV.42.1; VII.64.2; VIII.25.8; X.109.3; VIII.67.1. 10 See V. M. Apte , “ Were castes formulated in the Rgveda? BDCRI II , p. 47 . Another Rgvedic passage, v.54.7, implies a distinction between the rsi and the rājan. 11 There is no need to take the word “election” in its twentieth century sense. 12 RV. X.173.1, viśas tvā sarvā vānchantu. The word gana in RV. IV.35.3 and elsewhere seems to indicate a republican form of government.

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