Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.332
Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.332
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*aṅga-bhoga* (EI 17; CITD), often associated with *raṅga-bhoga* as *aṅga-raṅga-bhoga*, usually explained as ‘decorations and illuminations of a deity’. That *aṅga-bhoga* means decoration of the image of a deity is clear from the fact that a queen is known to have received a village as an *agrahāra* for her *aṅga-bhoga*, i.e. as her pin-money (Bomb. Gaz., Vol. I, Part ii, p. 448). Sometimes the land granted for the *aṅga-bhoga* of a deity came to be known as the deity’s *aṅga-bhoga* (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXIII, p. 182); cf. *aṅga*, same as *gātra* (IA 11).