Indian Epigraphy c10.s1.4

c10.s1.4

The common expression for the writer of a document or the copyist of a manuscript was *lekhaka* which also indicated a professional clerk.² Often people of the Brāhmaṇa community also adopted this profession. Among copyists of manuscripts there are many Brāhmaṇas. Buddhist and Jain monks are known to have copied works of their religious literature.