arājānaḥ

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 Weber³ 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. [Footnote] 1) iii. 4, 1, 7. 8; xiii. 4, 2, 17. [Footnote] 2) viii. 23. [Footnote] 3) Indische Studien, 17, 199. [Footnote] 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.