Indian Epigraphy c16.s3.108

c16.s3.108

In this list, *Mahāsāmantādhipati* is a more dignified title than *Mahāsāmanta*. *Viṣayavyāpṛtaka* is distinguished from the *Viṣayapati* or ruler of a district and may have been an officer associated with the administration of a district. In *Kāṇḍapati*, the word *kāṇḍa* seems to mean ‘an arrow’. The designation may therefore refer to an officer in charge of the armoury. The *Aśvapati* seems to have been the keeper of horses or the leader of the cavalry while the *Bhaṭṭa* was apparently ‘a minstrel’.