Wrong word. sjmaxq. English raj is from Hindi rAj m. 'rule, administration, government, kingdom, dominion, regime'. rAjya m. 'kingdom, territory, government, body politic, principality, land, monarch, domain' is obviously related. Not sure what the -ya is; some kind of suffix. I don't think you count letters in Devanagri, but syllables. It is a syllabary, not an alphabet. It's a good trivia question. I count two for both: rA + jŲ and rA + jya. (I could be wrong.)