Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.6255

c6.6255

u (IE 8-1), abbreviation of the land measure called udāna (q. v.). ubhaya, cf. ubhaiyam (SII 1), an offering. Cf. ubhaya-palisai (SITI), interest in two ways, i.e. in money and in kind. (SITI), a tax payable in gold; probably the same as ubhaya-mārga or the tolls collected on the highways in both the directions, i. e. inward and outward. (SII, Vol. III, p. 209), a gift to a temple or monastery in Tamil records. ubhaya-mukhī (Ep. Ind., Vol. XIII, p. 15, note 4), a cow in the act of giving birth to a calf; sometimes explained as ‘a pregnant cow’ (EI 6). ubhayamukhī-dakṣiṇā (CITD), some special kind of religious present or fee; the gift of a cow at the point of giving birth to a calf (cf. ubhayamukhī). Ubhaya-nānā-deśi (SITI), the two divisions of the Nānā-deśi organisation, e. g., the Nānādeśi and the Citrameḷi. (CITD), explained as the entire merchant community, i. e. including both the Sva-deśi and Para-deśi. ubhaya-svāmya, cf. ubhaya-sāmya (EI 5), probably, two kinds of ownership. ucaṭa (LP), impatience, anxiety; cf. Gujarātī uchāṭ. ucc-āvaca (CII 1), ‘more or less’, ‘of various kinds’.