Indian Epigraphy c12.36

c12.36

There are some charters in which the order is addressed not to the villagers but to others such as the subordinates, officers and agents of the king often with reference to a district. Cf. (1) *śrī-Kāpālivarmaṇo vacanena Śivapura-viṣaye vartamāna-bhaviṣyad-bhojak-āyuktaka-sthāyy-ādayo vaktavyāḥ*;¹ (2) *sarvān=eva svān=āyuktaka-mahattara-drāṅgika-cāṭa-bhaṭa-dhruvasthānādhikaraṇa-daṇḍapāśik-ādīn=anyāṃś=ca yathā-sambadhyamānakān=anudarsayati*;² (3) *asmin=Koṅgoda-maṇḍale śrīsāmanta-mahāsāmanta-mahārāja-rājaputr-āntaraṅga - daṇḍapāśik-oparika - viṣayapati-tadāniyuktaka - vartamāna - bhaviṣya - vyavahāriṇaḥ sa - karaṇān=yathārhaṃ pūjayati mānayati ca*;³ (4) *sarvān=ev=āgāmi-vartamāna-nṛpati-sāmanta-viṣayapati-bhogika-rāṣṭragrāmakūṭa-deśillaka- mahattar - ādhikārik-ādīn=samanudarśayati*;⁴ (5) *sarvān= eva samupagata-viṣayapati-rāṣṭragrāmamahattar-ādhikārīn=samanudarśayati*;⁵ (6) *Uttamāloka-viṣaye samupāgatān=vartamāna-bhaviṣyan-mahāsāmantamahārāja-rājaputra-kumārāmāly-oparika-viṣayapati-tadāyuktaka-dāṇḍa-pāśika-sthānāntarikān=anyāṁś=ca cāṭa-bhaṭ-ādīn=adhikaraṇāṁś=ca pūjayati;¹ (7) yato=’smat-santakāḥ sarv-ādhyakṣa-niyoga-niyuktā ājñāsañcāri-kulaputr-ādhikṛtāḥ bhaṭāś=chātrāś=ca viśruta-pūrvay=ājñay=ājñāpayitavyāḥ;² etc. In these, the expressions vartamāna-bhaviṣyat and yathā-sambadhyamānaka, used in several cases, show that the order was meant for the king’s officers, etc., who were associated with the administration of the area containing the gift village or land for the time being and also those who would be so associated in future.³ Sometimes the word samupāgata has been used in relation to ‘the present and future’ subordinates and officers of the donor in the district containing the gift village (No. 6). It is difficult to take samupāgata here in the sense of ‘assembled’ since the whole district seems to be too big a place for an assemblage, while it is not easy to understand how the ‘future’ subordinates and officers also assembled.