History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c64.81

v4.c64.81

Prof. Pathak while editing the Abhona plates of Śaṅkaragaṇa dated in Kalacuri *saṁvat* 347 in E. I. IX p. 296 quotes the words of Śaṅkarācārya (tārkika-cāṭa-bhaṭarājāpraveśyam) in his Bhāṣya on Bṛ. Up. and Ānandagiri's explanation thereon viz. *cāṭas* are those that transgress the rules of conduct for decent people and *bhaṭas* are servants telling falsehoods. Vide the Valabhi grant of Dharasena II in 252 Gupta year (I. A. 15 p. 187) and the Palitana plates of the same king and of the same year in E. I. XI. p. 80 at p. 83 and the Banskhera plate of Harṣa (E. I. IV p. 208, at p. 211 where we read 'bhaṭacāṭa-sevakādīn) for other early occurrences of the word. In the Naihati grant of Ballālasena we have the words 'caṭṭabhaṭṭa-jātīyān janapadān' (E. I. XIV p. 156 at p. 160).