[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Indian Epigraphical Glossary](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966) › c6.6341 # Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.6341 Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.6341 - **Language:** English ### [c6.6341](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.6341) \*Uparika\* (IE 8-3; CII 3; BL; HD), a viceroy; the governor of a province. An \*Uparika\* was appointed by the emperor and he himself appointed the governor of the district (cf. \*Ep. Ind.\*, Vol. XV, p. 130). He is sometimes styled \*Mahārāja\* and \*Rājaputra\*. Viśvarūpa on the \*Yājñavalkyasmṛti\*, I. 307, quotes a prose passage from Bṛhaspati where the requisite qualities of an \*Uparika\* are set out. See Vogel, \*Ant. Ch. St.\*, p. 123. The word literally means ‘one placed at the top’. - [Previous: c6.6340](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.6340) - [Next: c6.6342](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.6342) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6) ## Cites (4) - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.1.307) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Bṛhatsaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.samhita.rsi.brhatsamhita) — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit - [Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.corpora.cii) - [Damodarpur copper-plate inscription of the time of Kumāragupta I (Plate No. 1), year 124](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.north.gupta.damodarpur-copper-plate-inscription-of-the-time-of) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.6341](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.6341) · Pramāṇa