History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c12.s4.14

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c12.s4.14

VI. *Kaṭuka*, or commandant of the elephant force. Bāṇa names him Skandagupta. Mr. Y. R. Gupte, on the other hand, says that *Kaṭukas* “apparently mean any persons (officers, members of a religious assembly not generally held in respect at the time, etc.) who are disagreeable to the public.”²

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Harṣacarita — Bāṇabhaṭṭa, Sanskrit