Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.2811

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c6.2811

*Khola* (IE 8-3); HD), an official designation of uncertain meaning (*Ep. Ind.*, Vol. IV, pp. 250, 253); probably a kind of messenger. Utpala on the *Bṛhatsaṃhitā*, 85. 34, explains *Dūta* as *Gamāgamika* while some Pāla inscriptions place *Khola* between the two; probably the same as *Preṣaṇika* or *Dūta-preṣaṇika*, a dispatcher of messengers.

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