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Glossary
 
SUTA (1) A charioteer.
(2) A bard or minstrel.
(3) A chronicler.
 
(4) Sūta is mentioned as one of the eleven
Ratnins (q.v.). As such Sūta may be taken to
be either the court minstrel cum chronicler or
the commander of the royal chariot corps cum
King's charioteer.
 
(5) The son of a Kṣatriya by a woman of the
Brāhmaṇa caste. (Manu Saṁ, 10.11).
SUTRĀDHYAKŞA-Superintendent of Weaving.
 
was expected to supervise the state won
cloth industry (AŚ. II.23). This officer is
called Vastrādhipa in Sukranītisāra (II.118).
SURĀDHYAKŞA-Superintendent of distilleries
and drinking houses (AS. II.25).
SUVARŅĀDHYAKŞA-An officer engaged to
supervise the act of purification of gold, silver
etc. (AŚ. II.13).
 
SETU (1) A dam (vide AŚ. II.1).
 
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(2) Some five sources of royal income viz.
Puspavata (flower garden), Phalavata (fruit
garden), etc. enumerated in AŚ. II. 6 are to-
gether known as Setu.
 
(3) Mark for demarcating boundary between two
plots of land or between two villages etc. vide
AS. III.8 and Manu Sam. VIII.245.
 
SETU-BANDH-A dam . (AŚ. II.1).
SENĀNĪ—(1) A leader of an army.
 
4. Cf. Kşatriyad viprakanyāyām sūto bhavati jätitaḥ (Manu
Sam. 10.11). Compare also: Ksatriyat suta eva tu, (Ibid. 10.11).
 
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