History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.50

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कुलिक—An officer in charge of ten villages who was granted a 'kula' of land for his salary. Vide Manu VII. 119 and Kullūka thereon. In the Damodarpur plate of Gupta year 124 it is said that the head of the district was assisted by the *nagara-śreṣṭhin*, *prathama-kulika* and *prathama-kāyastha* (E. I. XV at p. 130). In the Nālandā plate of Devapāladeva we read 'Oḍra-mālava-khasa-kulika-karṇāṭa-hūṇa-cāṭa-bhaṭasevakādīn' (E. I. XVII at p. 321). Vide Chamba Ins. No. 15 at p. 166. Vogel says that 'Kulika' is a tribe (pp. 126-127). Probably the passage means 'officers in Orissa, Khasa and Mālvā and the cāṭas and soldiers of Karṇāṭa and Hūṇa origin'. Kulika also means 'an arbitrator as a tribunal'. Vide pp. 280-282 above and Indian Historical Quarterly, vol. 19 p. 12 at p. 14. Vide महापरमकुलिक.