Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.265

c6.265

alipaka, also read as alīyaka (EI 32), a fiscal expression of uncertain import; see nidhān-ālipaka. The word alipaka means ‘a bee’. Thus ālipaka may refer to the right over wax, bee-hives, and honey. Alīyaka, from ali, ‘a bee’, would mean the samething.