Indian Epigraphy c16.s3.135

c16.s3.135

Besides those mentioned in the lists quoted above, certain royal officers are mentioned about the end of copper-plate grants in connection with the preparation of the charters. The most important among these, as already indicated above, are the executor of a grant and the writer of the document. The executor, called *Dūtaka* in North Indian records and *Ājñā*, *Ājñapti* or *Ājñāpti* in the South Indian charters, although there may have been some difference between the functions of the two, was usually a person of high status, a high officer or a prince of the royal blood. The person responsible for the drafting of the grant was also an officer of high rank. But the designations of these officers are generally found in the lists quoted above.