Administration and Social Life under Vijayanagar c6.s2.20

c6.s2.20

The officer in charge of the royal seal was a high dignitary in the state, and was necessarily one who was in the confidence of the king. He was known to epigraphy as the Mudre officer or Mudra karta.¹³⁷ To this group belonged two other officers who were known by the designations of Ājñādhāraka and Ājñāparipālaka executors of the orders of the king.¹³⁸