History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.191

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महत्तर—lit. meaning 'elder' (of a town or village). Stein on Rājat. VII. 659 translates it as 'chamberlain.' The word occurs in the Kavi plate of Jayabhaṭa of the beginning of the 5th century A. D. (I. A. vol. V p. 114, 'rāṣṭragrāma-mahattara'), Gupta Ins. No. 38 p. 164 at p. 169 (the Maliya plate of Dharasena II), Abhona plates of Śaṅkaragaṇa (595 A. D.) in E. I. IX p. 297, Palitana plates of Siṁhāditya in the Gupta year 255 (E. I. XI pp. 16, 18), Valabhī grant of Dharasena II in Gupta year 252 (I. A. 15 p. 187), Vide also E. I. VIII p. 26 at p. 39 (śake 852), E. I. IV p. 278, 285 (śake 880), E. I. III p. 263, 266 (Vikrama year 1016), I. A.