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अराजानः (arAjAnaH)

 
Vedic Reference
English
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 Weber^3 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 con-
secration of princes.
1) iii. 4, 1, 7. 8
xiii. 4, 2, 17.
2) viii. 23.
3) Indische Studien, 17, 199.
4) iii. 5, 7, where he emends rājānaḥ
to a-rājānaḥ (see Whitney's note on the
passage). Cf. Bloomfield, Hymns of the
Atharvaveḍa, 333
Weber, Über den
Rājasūya, 22 et seq.