History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.34

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उपरिक—A very high officer, somewhat like a Governor of a province. Vide Damodarpur plate of Kumāragupta I in the Gupta year 125 (i. e. 443-44 A. D.) where an *uparika* is said to have been selected by Emperor Kumāragupta to govern Puṇḍravardhanabhukti and where the uparika is said to have appointed the kumārāmātya Vetravarman to govern the district (viṣaya) of Koṭivarṣa (E. I. XV p. 130). He is sometimes styled mahārāja and rājaputra. Vide also Gupta Inscriptions pp. 213, 216, the Bhagalpur plate of Nārāyaṇapāla (I. A. 15 p. 304 at p. 306), the Banskhera plate of Harṣa (E. I. IV p. 208 at p. 211) where *uparika* occurs after 'kumārāmātya' and before 'viṣayapati'. Viśvarūpa on Yāj. I. 307 quotes a prose passage from Bṛhaspati where the qualities requisite in an *uparika* are set out. Vide Dr. R. G. Bhandarkar Festschrift pp. 231-233 for note and Vogel p. 123.