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# Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.6339

Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.6339

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### [c6.6339](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.6339)

(IE 8-3; EI 7), epithet of teachers; mentioned as a \*Pātra\*. (CII 3), a sub-teacher who is the instructor in only a part of the Veda, or in grammar and the other \*Vedāṅgas\*. \*Upādhyāyini\* (LL), a female teacher; the wife of an \*Upādhyāya\*. \*upaga\* (CII 1), suitable; cf. \*manuṣy-opaga\*, ‘beneficial to men’. \*upagata\* (CII 1), same as \*saṅgata\*, intimately associated; see \*upeta\*, etc. See \*Ind. Ep.\*, pp. 161 ff. \*upagatā\* (LP), a receipt. \*upa-han\* (CII 1), to harm; cf. \*upaghāta\*, injury. \*upakara\* (\*Ep. Ind.\*, Vol. XXXIV, p. 106, note 5), cf. \*nikara\* and \*upaskara\*. \*upakārikā\*, probably, a territorial unit around the headquarters of an administrative unit (\*Ep. Ind.\*, Vol. XV, p. 286). \*upakhila\*, cf. \*sa-khil-opakhila\* (Chamba), ‘together with fallow (\*khila\*) and partially fallow (\*upakhila\*) land’. See \*pakhila\*. \*upaklpta\* (EI 15; CII 3, 4), a levy; probably, the tax on temporary tenants or the unfixed taxes or minor income; cf. \*sa-klpt-opaklpta\* (IE 8-5), also \*klpta\*, \*klpta-kara\*, \*udraṅga\* and \*uparikara\*. \*upakrama-karaṇa\*, cf. \*karaṇa\* (LP); the department of new undertakings. \*upakṣaya\* (LP), expense; ‘other expenses’; cf. \*s-opakṣaya\*, \*sañjāt-opakṣaya\*, ‘expenses incurred’. \*upakṣiti\* (IE 8-5; EI 33), probably, tax on inferior land; may also be the same as \*upakṣaya\*. \*upalakṣita\* (\*Select Inscriptions\*, p. 202), ‘examined’. \*upāna\* (SITI), the first moulding above the plinth, in the construction of temples. \*upanidhi\* (IE 8-5; EI 12), same as \*nikṣepa\*; cf. \*nidhi\*. \*upanipātaka\* (CII 3), same as \*upapātaka\*. \*upapātaka\* (CII 3), sins of the second degree. \*upapīṭha\* (SII 2), a lower pedestal; cf. \*pīṭha\*; also \*upapīṭhaṭṭukaṇḍappaḍai\*, the lower tier of the basement of a temple. \*Upapradhānin\* (ASLV), an executive officer lower in rank than the \*Pradhānin\*. \*Uparahiṇḍiya\* (LP), a tax-inspector.

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## Cites (5)

- [Barrackpur Plate of Vijayasena, year 62](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.east.bengal-charters.barrackpur-plate-of-vijayasena-year-62) — Sanskrit
- [Epigraphia Indica](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.ei)
- [Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.cii)
- [South Indian Inscriptions](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.south.sii)
- [Lekhapaddhati](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.vyavahara.pramana.lekhapaddhati) — Sanskrit

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