History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.256
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.256
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राजपुत्र—*lit.* ‘a prince’, but in many inscriptions it has some technical meaning such as ‘nobleman’ or ‘knight’. The word occurs in the Nālandā plate of Devapāla (E. I. XVII at p. 321 where the order is ‘rāja-rāṇaka-rājaputra-rājāmātya), in Gupta Ins. No. 46 at pp. 213, 216, Bhagalpur plate of Nārāyaṇapāla (I. A. vol. 15 pp. 304, 306), in Lakṣmaṇasena's grant (E. I. VII p. 6 at p. 9). Vide Vogel p. 121 and Fleet's note 1 on p. 218 of Gupta Ins.