History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c12.s4.42

c12.s4.42

XVIII. *Bhogika* or *Bhogapati*, i.e., one responsible for the collection of the *bhoga* or the state share of the land produce taken in kind, as a rule one-sixth. Fleet, however, was of opinion that “in the inscriptions it is a technical official title, possibly connected with the territorial terms Bhoga and Bhukti.”³ Another scholar, Dr. R. G. Basak, explains the word by “groom.”⁴