History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.117

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दूतक—A high officer or delegate who conveys the king's command about the grant of land to local officers. The word occurs in the Betul plate of Saṅkṣobha in 199 Gupta year (Gupta Ins. pp. 286–289), and in the plate of Mahārāja Jayanātha of Gupta year 174 (Gupta Ins. No. 26 p. 117 at p. 119 where the 'dūtaka' is Uparikadīkṣita Sarvadatta), in the Banskhera plate of Harṣa in E. I. IV p. 208 (dūtakotra mahāpramātāra-mahāsāmanta-śrī-Skandagupta) and also in the Madhuban plate of Harṣa (E. I. VII at p. 158). In the Daulatpur plate of Bhojadeva I in Harṣa *saṁvat* 100 the dūtaka is said to be 'Yuvarāja-Nāgabhaṭa'. Vide also E. I. VI p. 285, E. I. VIII. 287, XI p. 80. In the Khalimpur plate of Dharmapāla (in E. I. vol. IV p. 243 at p. 250) the king states that he was requested to make a grant by Mahāsāmantādhipati Nārāyaṇavarman through the Prince Tribhuvanpāla as dūtaka.