[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Indian Epigraphical Glossary](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966) › c6.3076 # Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.3076 Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.3076 - **Language:** English ### [c6.3076](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.3076) \*Lobha-vijayin\* (CII 4), ‘an avaricious conqueror’. \*locana\* (IE 7-1-2), ‘two’. \*loha\*, cf. \*so-loha-lavaṇ-ākara\* (IE 8-5), ‘together with mines of metals and salt pits \[the right of which normally belonged to the king\]’. \*Loha-carma-kāra\* (EI 24), workers in metal and leather. \*lohaḍiyā\*, name of a coin equal to 20 \*pāvīsās\* and 100 cowrie-shells; cf. \*Ep. Ind.\*, Vol. XXXIII, p. 238. \*Lohāra\* (EI 4; BL), modification of \*Lohakāra\*; a blacksmith. \*Loha-vāṇija\* (LL) an iron-monger. \*Lohika-kāruka\* (LL), a worker in metal. \*Lohita\* (ML), a blood relation. \*lohitaka\*, weight equal to 3 \*māṣas\* (\*JNSI\*, Vol. XVI, p. 46). \*loka\* (IE 7-1-2), ‘fourteen’; sometimes also ‘three’; rarely used to indicate ‘seven’. \*Lokapāla\* (CII 3, etc.), a guardian of one of the quarters of the world, originally conceived as four in number and later as eight. (EI 15), cf. the king called ‘the fifth \*Lokapāla\*’, the four \*Lokapālas\* (guardians of the four quarters) being originally Yama of the south, Varuṇa of the west, Kubera of the north and Vāsava of the east. In the same sense, the king was also called \*madhyama-loka-pāla\*, though \*madhyama-loka\* may also mean ‘the earth’ standing midway between the heavens and the netherworld. See \*Suc. Sāt.\*, pp. 196, 202; \*Ep. Ind.\*, Vol. XXXII, p. 93. Cf. \*Pañcama-lokapāla\*. - [Previous: c6.3075](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.3075) - [Next: c6.3077](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.3077) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6) ## Cites (2) - [Epigraphia Indica](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.ei) - [Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.cii) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.3076](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.3076) · Pramāṇa