Indian Epigraphy c16.s3.80

c16.s3.80

The charters of the early medieval kings of South India generally do not contain any big list of addressees. Thus while the Ellora plates⁶ (742 A.D.) of Dantidurga are addressed to the Rājan, Sāmanta, Bhogika, Viṣayapati, Rāṣṭrakūṭa, Mahattara and Adhikārika, the Sanjan plates¹ (871 A.D.) of Amoghavarṣa I were addressed to the Rāṣṭrapati, Viṣayapati, Grāmakūṭa, Yuktaka or Āyuktaka, Niyukta, Adhikārika and Mahattara. In these, the Rāṣṭrakūṭa of the one is the same as the Rāṣṭrapati of the other. Niyukta is the same as Tanniyuktaka, etc., of other records. Adhikārika seems to be the same as the Niyogika or Naiyogika of the early Pallava inscriptions. The Viṣayapati was the ruler of a Viṣaya or district.