राजमात्र (rAjamAtra)

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Spoken Sanskrit

English

 
   राजमात्र  rAjamAtra  adj.
   any one who claims the title of king or enjoys royal authority

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 राज—मात्र mfn.
   any one who claims the title of king or enjoys royal authority,  ŚāṅkhBr.
  
 Car.
 
 Divyāv.

Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid

English

 (rājamātra,  m.,  occurs in Skt. but is misdefined BR and pw
 Keith on KBr. 〔27.6〕 vicegerent,  which is approximately right
 = Pali (rāja-)mahāmatta,  listed among ‘rājāno’,  i.e. people who in one way or another exercise royal functions,  in Vin. 〔iii.47.2〕,  where comm. 〔309.13 ff.〕 mahāmattā ti ṭhānantarappattā mahāamaccā,  te pi tattha tattha gāme vā nigame vā nisīditvā rājakiccaṃ karonti
 chief minister,  vizier,  always preceded by rājan: rājā vā rājamātro vā Śikṣ 〔12.13〕
 similarly SP 〔108.8〕
 〔113.2〕
 Divy 〔143.2〕
 〔290.5〕
 Chin. on SP 〔108.8〕 is said to render equal of a king.)

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Vedic Reference

English

 Rāja-mātra is found in the Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa (xxvii. 6)
and the Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra (xvii. 5,  3. 4
 15,  3),  where
it seems to include ‘the whole class of persons (who could be
called) Rājan’ — i.e.,  the Rājaputras and the Rājanyas.

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