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# Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.5441

Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.5441

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### [c6.5441](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.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).

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