Indian Epigraphy c16.s3.97

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c16.s3.97

³ Cf. the later *Kotwāl* generally regarded as a Persian word meaning 'the chief officer of police for a city or town, a superintendent of the markets' (Wilson's Glossary). The commnander of a fort seems to be called *Viśiṣa* (a word of uncertain derivation) in certain early medieval records of the central areas of India (cf. *Ep. Ind.*, Vol. XXX, p. 89).

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An Inscribed Terracotta Plaque — Sanskrit