History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.22

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आज्ञप्ति—One who communicates at the order of the king the details about a landgrant to local officers (probably the same as *dūtaka*). This word occurs in some of the earliest Ins. of Pallava Śivaskandavarman (in E. I. VI p. 84 at p. 88). Vide also E. I. VIII at p. 146 (plates of the great Pallava queen Cārudevi), JBBRAS vol. X p. 365 of *śake* 532 (where the ājñapti is Durgapati), E. I. XII p. 3, E. I. XV p. 70 (plate of Sundara Cola). In the grant of the eastern Cālukya king Amma II we have ‘ajñaptiḥ kaṭakādhīśo bhaṭṭadevaśca lekhakaḥ’ (E. I. VII at p. 188). Vide p. 184 of the same for a discussion of the meaning.