[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) › c6.743.1 # Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.743.1 Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.743.1 - **Language:** English ### [c6.743.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.743.1) bappa (EI 29, 30; CII 3; etc.), a Prakrit word meaning ‘the father’, often used in Sanskrit inscriptions. Cf. \*bappa-bhaṭṭāraka-pāda-parigṛhīta\* (EI 31), epithet of certain rulers. \*bappa-bhaṭṭāraka\* (EI 4), ‘the father, the lord’. Cf. \*bappa\*. \*bāra\* (EI 13), Telugu; the distance between the ends of out-stretched arms. \*bārāḍ\*, derived from Sanskrit \*varāṭa\* or \*varāṭaka\*, ‘a cowrie-shell (used as money)’ (\*JNSI\*, Vol. XVI, p. 18). Cf. \*varāṭikā\*. \*baraṭa\* (CII 4), a plant grown for fencing. \*bārhaspatya\* (IA 11), name of a reckoning. \*Barkandāz\*, Persian; same as \*Pāik\* (q.v.). \*bartanā\* (IE 3-5), Rājasthānī; a blunt stick for writing on a wooden slate; same as \*barthā\*. \*barthā\* (IE 3-5), same as \*bartanā\*. \*Basilēos Basilēon Mĕgalŏu\* (IE 8-2), Greek; ‘of the great king of kings;’ used in the legend on the coins of the Scytho-Parthian kings; adapted from old Persian \*Khshāthiya Khshāthiyānām\*, ‘the king of kings’; translated into Prakrit as \*Maharaja Rajarajasa\* (or \*Rajadirajasa\*) \*mahatasa\* (Sanskrit \*Mahārājasya Rājarājasya mahataḥ\* or \*Rājātirājasya mahataḥ\*). \*Basilēos Mĕgalŏu\* (IE 8-2), Greek; ‘of the great king’, found in the legend on the coins of Indo-Greek kings at first translated in Prakrit as \*Rajasa mahatakasa\* (Sanskrit \*Rājñaḥ mahataḥ\*) and later as \*Maharajasa\* (Sanskrit \*Mahārājasya\*); adapted from old Persian \*Khshāthiya vazrka\*. \*ba-ti\* (IE 8-1), abbreviation of \*bahula-pakṣa-tithi\*. See \*ba-di\*. - [Previous: c6.742](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.742) - [Next: c6.743.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.743.2) - [Up: c6.743](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.743) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.743.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sircar-1966.c6.743.1) · Pramāṇa