Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.4839

c6.4839

*prayāṇa-daṇḍa* (IE 8-5; EI 25, 26), cf. *rājasevakānāṁ vasati-daṇḍa-prayāṇa-daṇḍau na staḥ*; refers to the obligation of the villagers to provide free conveyance and carriage, etc., when royal officers passed through their village. *Prayāṇa* thus seems to mean ‘passage, transit’, and *daṇḍa* ‘levy’; cf. *rūḍhabhāroḍi*.