Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c19.2448

c19.2448

*Muṇḍa* The maid-servants known as Muṇḍis were brought from here Hemacandra gives Lampāka as another name for Muṇḍa. Muṇḍa is mentioned in the Allahabad Pillar Inscription of Samudragupta. Cunningham suggests that perhaps Muṇḍas are the same as Muṇḍas, one of the aboriginal tribes of East India ⁴³ Dr. Sten Konow holds that Muṇḍa is the later form of a Śaka meaning ‘lord’ or ‘master’; the term Śaka-Muṇḍa possibly stands, therefore, for these Śaka lords or chieftains who were ruling in the regions of Surāṣṭra and Ujjain at the time of Samudragupta.⁴⁴