Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.484

c6.484

ā-ṣāṇmāsika (CII 1), ‘less than six months in age’. Āśapāla (HD), ‘the guardian of the quarters’; a chief ruling over 10,000 villages, according to the Śukranītisāra, I. 192. aśātanā (HA), Jain; disrespect or disobedience. Āsedhabhaṅg-ādhikṛta (IE 8-3; EI 31), a police officer to check people’s escape from prison or legal restraint. aśeṣa-mahāśabda (IE 8-2), same as pañca-mahāśabda. aśeṣa-vidya (SII 1), belonging to all the branches of sacred studies. asi-daṇḍa-prahāra (LP), war. asidhārā-vrata (EI 16), name of a vow. āsīhāra, cf. udak-āsīhāra-kullaka; probably, a kind of channel. āsīna (JAHRS, Vol. IX, Part i, p. 31, text line 12), literally ‘seated’; downcast, dejected. Cf. Ep. Ind., Vol. XXXV, pp. 264-65. āsnava (CII 1), sin. āsphoṭana (SII 1), a challenge. āśrama (EI 13) a stage of life; a religious establishment (Ep. Ind., Vol. XXX, p. 67); cf. Caṇḍik-āśrama-guru (IA 11), ‘the Superior of the hermitage of Caṇḍikā’. (IE 7-1-2), ‘four’. āśraya (IA 20), subdivision of a viṣaya. Cf. āśiriyam, āśiriya-kkal, āśiriya-ppramāṇam (SITI), a document by which a person submits to another’s protection. Assamese, same as Asamīyā; language and alphabet of Assam, the alphabet being sometimes called Bengali-Assamese. aṣṭa, cf. aṣṭa-bhoga, probably ‘all kinds of enjoyment’ (and not merely ‘eight’ kinds) ensuring tejaḥ-svāmya or ownership endowed with complete authority. Cf. aṣṭadaśa, etc. aṣṭa-bhāgika (CII 1), ‘[a village] paying one-eighth of the produce [instead of the usual rate of one-sixth or so]’. aṣṭa-bhoga (IE 8-5; EI 14, 17), privileges of the donee of a rent-free holding, believed to be grouped into eight classes which are sometimes enumerated as nidhi, nikṣepa, jala, pāṣāṇa, akṣiṇin, āgāmin, siddha and sādhya. Cf. aiśvary-āṣṭaka and aṣṭa-bhūti (EI 33); also aṣṭabhoga-tejaḥsvāmya. (CITD), the eight privileges associated with the enjoyment of rent-free land, also enumerated as (1) nidhi (a treasure or a hoard, i.e. a natural hoard such as a mine), (2) nikṣepa (a treasure hidden or stored up by some one), (3) akṣīṇa (permanent or lasting benefits), (4) āgāmin (future benefits); (5) sañcita (benefits already stored up), (6) jala (waters); (7) taru (trees) and (8) pāṣāṇa (stones). See JAHRS, Vol. X, p. 124. Pāṣāṇa seems to mean ‘hilly area’.