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was followed in the South India. D. C. Sircar, Indian Epigraphical Glossary
 
, p. 230. In this sense the term Pañcamāhavādya was followed in the South India. In this sense
the term Pañcamāhavadya was also used.
also used.
(2) =The five official designations, beginning

with the word mahaā, which could be applied
simultaneously to an officer indicating his higher

simultaneously to an officer indicating his higher
status. The five designations might have been

some of the titles like, Mahasaāsāmanta, Maha-
ā-
pratīhāra, Mahādaṇḍanaāyaka, Mahamantri,
āmantrī,
Mahādoḥ sādhanika, etc.³ P. N. Bhattacharya, Kāmarupaśāsanāvalī, p. 42. This meaning of the
term was followed in the Northern India.
 
D. C. Sircar, loc. cit.
 
PAŅA --(1) A coin of silver or copper. Basham, The Wonder that was India, p. 102. Kautilya in
AS
ṭilya in AŚ V. 3 gives a long list of officials who are to

be paid various salaries in Paṇas, fixed by him.

(2) In AŚ II. 12 it is instructed that the Pana
ṇa
is to be made mainly with silver with one-fourth

quantity of copper and one-sixth part of anyone

of a few other metals, viz. Tīkṣṇa, Trapu, Sīsā
and An

and Añ
jana.
 
PANYADHYAKSA-Superintendent of markets.
He was required to organise the sale of govern-
ment products (i.e., the products of the public
sector) and to organise the import of goods
needed for the locality. The details of his duties
are given in AŚ II. 16.
 
PATTANA-A port or a seaside town. (AŚ II. 28).
PATTI (1) A foot soldier.
 
2. D. C. Sircar, Indian Epigraphical Glossary, p. 230.
3. P. N. Bhattacharya, Kamarupaśāsanāvalī, p. 42.
 
4. D. C. Sircar, loc. cit.
 
103
 
5. Basham, The Wonder that was India, p. 102.
 
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. Cf. lakṣaṇādhyakṣaḥ caturbhaāgatāmraṁ rupyarupam tīkṣṇa-

trapu-sīsā-njanā-nāmanyatama-māṣa-vijyauktaṁ kārayet. paṇam
ardhapan

ardhapaṇ
aṁ padam aṣṭabhāgam iti (AŚ II. 12).

Cf. also Shamasastry, AS. Trans., p. 86,
 

 
PAṆYĀ
Digitized HYAKṢA--Superintendent of markets.
He was required to organise the sale of govern-
ment products (i.e., the products of the pu
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sector) and to organise the import of goods
needed for the locality. The details of his duties
are given in AŚ II. 16.
 
PATTA
NA--A port or a seaside town. (AŚ IVERSI. 28).
 
PA
TY OF MTICHIGAN
 
--(1) A foot soldier.