Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.827

c6.827

*Bhaṭṭāraka* (IE 8-2; CII 3; EI 30), title used in Sanskrit but really Prakrit derived from Sanskrit *bhartṛ* through the plural form *bhartāraḥ*=Prakrit *bhaṭṭāra* (see *Svāmin*); often suffixed to the personal names of paramount sovereigns as well as of feudatory *Mahārājas*, or *Yuvarājas* (crown-princes); applied to gods and priests in the sense of ‘worthy of worship or sacred’. Cf. *bappa-bhaṭṭāraka-pāda-parigṛhīta*, *bhaṭṭāraka-Mahāsena-parigṛhīta*, etc.