Kalpasutra

Author(s): J Stevenson
Publisher: Oriental Translation Fund London

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KALPA SÚTRA.
pensive jewels by the most skilful workmen, shining, glittering incomparable, in a word, like the tree that yields all that is desired, covered with ornaments, with a state umbrella held over his head, resembling a canopy of amaranth blossoms, and fanned with a chowrie, while the people raised an auspicious shout of triumph, attended by the commanders of the troops, and heads of departments, the vice-regent", the heads of the policet, chief of the royal messengerst, counsellors, inferior and superior, astrologers, warders, cabinet ministers, slaves, and personal attendants, citizens, with the lawyers and bankers, commanders of the forces, commanders of the chariots, couriers, and sealerss, issued forth the king and lord of men,
* This is the Yuva raja, called in the text simply TGHT
† In India usually called the Kotwal; perhaps under the native governments, a commander of the city-guard would give a truer notion of his dignity.
The Kodambia again; the Sanscrit is Fafha: the word aata is not in the Dictionary, and it occurs too frequently to be erroneously written. Their dignity seems to have been much higher than that of the <a mentioned afterwards.
$ afyata whosc duty it was, according to the king's command, to affix the royal signet to public documents. Such an officer, I believe, exists at the East India House.