Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.5071

c6.5071

Rāṣṭrika (IE 8-3; CII 1; HD; LL), Prakrit Raṭhika (EI 2), Raṭṭhika (EI 7); same as Rāṣṭrin; ruler of a rāṣṭra, i.e. a district or its subdivision; also the name of a people called ‘hereditary Rāṣṭrikas’. Cf. Ep. Ind., Vol. I, p. 5; Bhandarkar, Aśoka, p. 30.