Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.6323

c6.6323

*umbara-bheda* (IE 8-5; EI 25), ‘violation of the closed door’; the right of royal officers to enter into a house with doors closed for realising taxes. This probably related to the houses of merchants who were away from their home-towns in the course of their business; cf. *unmara* or *umbara*; also *prātibhedikā*.