Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.5441

c6.5441

*santaka* (EI 27; CII 3), Prakrit; ‘belonging to’; sometimes Sanskritised as *satka*. Sometimes *santaka* (also *santika* apparently used in the same sense) has been regarded as meaning ‘a territorial unit’; supposed similarly to mean ‘a servant’ (EI 23) or ‘an officer’ (EI 24).