Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.4751

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*Pratihāra*, *Pratīhāra* (EI 23; BL), also called *Pratīhārin* (EI 3, 23), ‘a door-keeper’; but cf. *Mahāpratīhāra* who was a high officer; officer in charge of the defence of the royal palace or bed-chamber or the head of the guards of the city gate; a chamberlain or inditer of grants, according to some (HD); personal attendant of a king, according to others (CII; 4). See *Ep. Ind.*, Vol. VIII, p. 73; Vol. IX, p. 192; Bṛhaspati quoted by Viśvarūpa on the *Yājñavalkyasmṛti*, I. 307 (for his qualifications); *Mahābhārata*, Ādiparvan, 85. 28-29; *Viṣṇudharmottara*, II. 24. 12; Śukra, I. 121. Cf. *Antaḥ-pratīhāra* (IE 8-3), *Rajju-pratīhāra*.