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राजन्यबन्धु (rAjanyabandhu)

 
Capeller Eng
English
राजन्य॑बन्धु
m.
 friend of a prince, also =
राजन्य॑
m.
Spoken Sanskrit
English
राजन्यबन्धु rAjanyabandhu
m.
 friend or connection of a prince
राजन्यबन्धु rAjanyabandhu
m.
 kSatriya
Monier Williams Cologne
English
राजन्य᳡—बन्धु
m.
 (°न्य॑-). the the friend or connection of a prince (generally used in contempt),
ŚBr.
Lāṭy.
a Kṣatriya,
Mn.
 ii, 65.
Apte Hindi
Hindi
राजन्यबन्धुः
पुं*
 राजन्य-बन्धुः -
क्षत्रिय
Vedic Reference
English
Rājanya-bandhu denotes a Rājanya, but usually with a
depreciating sense. Thus in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa^1 Janaka
is called by the Brahmins, whom he defeated in disputation, ‘a
fellow of a Rājanya’
the same description is applied to Pravāh-
aṇa Jaivali in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad^2 for a similar
reason. On the other hand, in one passage^3 where reference is
made to men eating apart from women, princes are said to do
so most of all: the term Rājanyabandhu cannot here be
deemed to be contemptuous, unless, indeed, it is the expression
of Brahmin contempt for princes, such as clearly appears in
the treatment of Nagnajit in another passage.^4 Again, in a
passage^5 in which the four castes are mentioned, the Vaiśya
precedes the Rājanyabandhu, a curious inversion of the order
of the second and third castes.^6
1) xi. 6, 2, 5.
2) vi. 1, 5.
3) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, x. 5, 2. 10,
where cf. Eggeling's note, Sacred
Books of the East, 43, 370, n. 1. A
similar case is apparently i. 2, 4, 2,
where any special contempt cannot be
meant.
4) viii. 1, 4, 10. Cf. Muir, Sanskrit
Texts, 12, 515.
5) i. 1, 4, 12.
6) Eggeling, op. cit., 12, 28.
Capeller
German
राजन्यबन्धु
m.
 Fürstengenosse.
राजन्यबन्धु auch = क्षत्रिय.