what were the rajas during the vedic age
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Answer:HERE YOU GO!!
Explanation:This is a very good question.
All the records show that in the Vedic system, the raja or king was a very responsible person who was in charge of protecting the prajas (all the residents of the kingdom) from aggression, injustice and poverty. So every day anyone could approach him during the open assembly hours and submit grievances.
The brothers and other family members of the raja were also engaged in regularly patrolling the kingdom to prevent violence and criminal activities.
However, no kshatriya tried to interfere with the normal and non-violent personal lives and business of the people, an effort that today absorbs over 80% of the energies of governments through police, burocracy, administration, and politics.
One could occupy the position of raja or kshatriya only if he had the appropriate guna and karma, otherwise he would be engaged in some other professional capacity and category. We can see from many records that some people born in kshatriya and even royal families went on to become vaisyas or sudras or brahmanas or even chandalas because they did not have the guna and karma for the job of kshatriya - and nobody was shocked about that.
Conversely, we have seen both in scriptures and in history that several people born in non-kshatriya families became qualified to occupy the kingly position, and did a very good job, too.
Kingship was a local concern, as the kingdoms were generally quite small, so that each king was actually able to to his job effectively.
Emperors never interfered in the administration of local kingdoms but kept larger territories together through alliances and allegiances. Their duties were: rallying together the various kings in case of serious aggressions from the outside such as invasions, keeping the proper functioning order of communication and transportation roads and rivers etc, helping any local king or kingdom that was undergoing extreme difficulties such as famine or serious problems, sponsoring higher education centers and so on.