दशपुरुषंराज्य (dazapuruSaMrAjya)
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EnglishDaśa-puruṣaṃ-rājya, occurring in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, ^1
doubtless^2 means ‘sovereignty inherited through ten ancestors, ’
a striking case of hereditary rule. Weber^3 once rendered the
word as the ‘kingdom^4 of Daśapuru, ’ comparing the Daśapura
of Kālidāsa's Meghadūta^5 and the Daśārṇa of the ‘middle
country.’
1) xii. 9, 3, 1. 3.
2) Cf. Āśvalāyana Śrauta Sūtra, ix. 3
Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra, xv. 14, 18.
So tri-puruṣa, ‘three generations, ’
Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, viii. 7. The
St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v., and
Eggeling Sacred Books of the East,
44, 269, have the correct rendering.
3) Indische Studien, 1, 209. But see 10,
75, n. 1.
4) This would be sāmrājya, which is
always spelt with m, not ṃ
cf. Mac-
donell, Vedic Grammar, 75, 3.
5) i. 48.
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