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is presumed to mean the King's companion
at the game table.
 
(3) But it seems to be more reasonable to take
this term to be analogous to Akşapatalā-
dhyaksa of AS II.7. While, Saṁgrahitā,
the seventh of the Ratnins,cor responds to
Sannidhātā of the fifth ch. of AS bk. II,
and Bhāgadhuk, the eighth of the Ratnins
corresponds to Samāhartā of the sixth ch.
of AS bk. II, it is quite likely that Akşavāpa
the ninth of the Ratnins corresponds to the
Akşapaṭalādhyakşa, given in the very next
ch., i.e., ch. 7 of AS bk. II.
 
(4) As equivalent to Akşapaṭalādhyakṣa, the
present term means the Superintendent of
the depository of the royal records and
accounts.
 
AGRAHĀRA-Rent free land donated to brāh-
maṇas.[^3] This term is often suffixed to the
names of the villages or localities donated by the
Kings as in the name Mayurasalmala-Agra-
hara in the Nidhanpur C.P. Grant of Bhaskara-
varman[^4]
 
ATAVIRAJYA-Kingdoms of the forest region.
From inscriptional evidences these Forest King-
doms seem to have been small but sovereign
states mainly belonging to central India. The
powerful Kings often took pride in subduing the
forest Kingdoms. (See Atavikarāja). In the
 
 
[^3] Vide Bobbili C.P. Inscription of Achaṇḍavarman, lines 6, 7.13.
[^4] P. N. Bhattacharyya, Kamarupaśasanavali, pp. 16 f.
(lines 50 f).