Political Concepts in Ancient India /135

Glossary
 
PRĀTIBHĀVYA--The act of becoming a bail or

surety (AS' III. 11).º
 
Cf. asāraṁ bālaprātibhāvyam (A child's becoming the bail
will be invalid) (AS' III. 115
 
).
 
PRĀDEŠŚIKA—The governor of a province of the

Mauryan administration. (Asoka's Third Rock

Edict, Line 2).
 

 
PRAĀPTAPANÑCAMAHĀŠŚABDA--(1) A title or epi-

thet applied to a royal officer of a comparatively

higher status. (Cf. Nidhanpur C.P. Grant of

Bhāskara varma, line 133. Ed. Ind. Vol. XII).

(2) =Samadhigata-pañca-mahāśabda.¹
 
D. C. Sircar, Indian Epigraphical Glossary, p. 256.
(3) The title indicates that the officer (or even

feudatory rulers) bearing this epithet were

entitled to be honoured by Pañcamahāśabda (i.e.

five kinds of musical instruments), or to
 

(4) The privilege of using five official titles begin-

ning with the word maha.
 
ā. See, Pañcamahāśabda.
 
PRAĀPTAVYAVAHĀRA--One who has become a
 

major to take part in legal suits or to claim a

division of the paternal property and for other

similar purposes. A male becomes a major after

attaining 16 years and a female becomes a major

after attaining 12 years (see AS' III. 5 etc.).
 
BA
 

 
BANDHAKA--(1) Pledge or mortgage (Yaājñāvalk-

ya II. 3.37).
 

(2) Same as AĀdhi. See Medhaātithi on Manu

Samṁ. VIII. 149.
 
9. Cf. asāram bālaprātibhāvyam (A child's becoming the bail
will be invalid) (AS' III. 11).
 
1. D. C. Sircar, Indian Epigraphical Glossary, p. 256.
2. See, Pancamahāśabda.
 
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