[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Indian Epigraphical Glossary](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966) › c6.5181 # Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.5181 Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.5181 - **Language:** English ### [c6.5181](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.5181) Sādhanika (CII 4), a general; same as Sāhaṇi, etc. Sādhanin (EI 23), explained as ‘a councillor’; but really, the same as Sādhanika (q.v.). sādhāra (Ep. Ind., Vol. XIV, p. 177), either a mistake for sādhāraṇa, ‘common’, or means ‘together with the adjacent grounds’. sādhāraṇa (IA 20), used in the sense of laukika. sadharmi-vātsalya (HA), attachment to or service of the followers of one’s own faith. sadhryagvihārin (LL), doubtful Sanskritisation of Pāli saddhi-vihārin (Sanskrit sārdhamvihārin under the influence of sādhya), companion of a Buddhist monk. Cf. Jain Sārdhamcara, Sārdhamcarī (LL). Sādhu (EI 9), a priest. (HA), a Jain monk. (LP; HA), same as Sāhu, a merchant. (CII 1), an adjective meaning ‘good’. Sādhvī (JHA), a Jain nun. sādhya (IE 8-5; EI 15; SITI), a type of income; income from land that may be brought under cultivation in future; one of the eight kinds of enjoyment of property. See aṣṭa-bhoga, siddha. Sādhyapāla (HD), a bailiff who summoned parties and witnesses. See Hist. Dharm., Vol. III, p. 278. sādyaskra (EI 22; CII 3; etc.), name of a sacrifice. sagara (IE 7-1-2), confused with sāgara and rarely used to indicate ‘seven’. sāgara (IE 7-1-2), ‘four’; used in the sense of ‘seven’ by some late writers (IA 19). Sagotra (CII 3, etc.), belonging to the lineage of the person from whom the gotra name is derived. Sahadeśa (IA 17), also called Sahadeśin, ‘belonging to the same country’. sahagamana (ASLV), self-immolation of a widow on the funeral pyre of her husband; same as satī. Sahaja-kavi (Ep. Ind., Vol. V, p. 231, note 1), epithet of a poet. Sāhaṇi (IE 8-3), also called Sāhiṇi, etc.; derived from Sanskrit Sādhanika; cf. Gaja-sāhiṇi, etc. (EI 15), see Paṭṭa-sāhaṇi, Peyiya-sāhaṇi, Maleya-sāhaṇi. Sāhānī (EI 33), same as Sādhanika, Sāhaṇi, etc. - [Previous: c6.5180](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.5180) - [Next: c6.5182](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.5182) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6) ## Cites (5) - [Naihati Plate of Vallālasena, year 11](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.east.bengal-charters.naihati-plate-of-vallalasena-year-11) — Sanskrit - [Epigraphia Indica](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.ei) - [Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.cii) - [Indian Antiquary](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.ia) - [Ablūr inscription of the time of Vikramāditya VI (A)](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.deccan.kalyana-calukya.ablur-inscription-of-the-time-of-vikramaditya-vi-a) — Kannada --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.5181](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.5181) · Pramāṇa