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176 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ANCIENT INDIA Chākra Sthapati.”] The Aitareya Brāhmana? refers to personages who were expelled from their kingdoms (rāshtras) and who were anxious to recover them with the help of the Kshatriya consecrated with the Punarabhisheka. Such persons were the Indian counterparts of the French 'emigrants” who sought to reclaim revo. lutionary France with the help of the troops of the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns. We learn from the Vessantara Jātaka * that the king of the Sivis (Sibis) was compelled to banish prince Vessantara in obedience to "the people's sentence" (Sivinam vachanatthena samhā ratthā nirajjati).
The king was told : “Sache tvam na karissasi Sivinam vachanam idai marine tam saha puttena. Sivihatthe larissare ti" The bidding of the Sivi folk if you refuse to do The people then will act, methinks, against your son
and you. The king replied : “Eso che Sivīnam chhando chhandai na panudāmase” Behold the people's will, and I that will do not gainsay.
The Padakusalamānava Jatakab tells a story how the town and the country folk of a kingdom assembled (janapadā negamā cha samāgatā), beat the king and priest to death as they became a source, not of weal, but of woe (lit. fear, yato khemam tato bhayam), and anointed a good man as king. A similar story is told in the Sachchan kira Jātaka. We are told in the Khandahāla Jātaka? that
1 For the designation 'Sthapati', see ante, p. 167. 2 VIII. 10. 3 Cf. Lodge, Modern Europe, p. 517. 4 No. 547 : Text VI. 490-502. The Sibis are known to Ait. Br. viii. 23. 5 No. 432. 6 No. 73. 7 No. 542
